Re: Wine viruses

2009-02-18 Thread IneedAname
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:11:20 +0100 Martin Hinner mar...@hinner.info wrote: The problem is that some (almost all?) distributions simply execute .exe file when you click on it. I was amazed when testing JTAGTest on Linux! This is in my opinion quite big issue as ordinary users do not have

Re: Wine viruses

2009-02-18 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/18 IneedAname wineap...@googlemail.com: Why not make Wine honor the noexe flag on the mount? This might not be a bad idea, if it's possible. Make Wine refuse to run apps on noexec filesystems.

Re: Wine viruses

2009-02-18 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:33:01PM +1100, Ben Klein wrote: 2009/2/18 IneedAname wineap...@googlemail.com: Why not make Wine honor the noexe flag on the mount? This might not be a bad idea, if it's possible. Make Wine refuse to run apps on noexec filesystems. Likely will break installing

Re: Wine viruses

2009-02-18 Thread Paul Chitescu
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 12:33:01 Ben Klein wrote: 2009/2/18 IneedAname wineap...@googlemail.com: Why not make Wine honor the noexe flag on the mount? This might not be a bad idea, if it's possible. Make Wine refuse to run apps on noexec filesystems. It is usual to mount FAT

Re: Wine viruses

2009-02-18 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/18 Marcus Meissner meiss...@suse.de: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:33:01PM +1100, Ben Klein wrote: 2009/2/18 IneedAname wineap...@googlemail.com: Why not make Wine honor the noexe flag on the mount? This might not be a bad idea, if it's possible. Make Wine refuse to run apps on noexec

Re: Wine viruses

2009-02-18 Thread Mihai Donțu
On Wednesday 18 February 2009, Ben Klein wrote: 2009/2/18 Martin Hinner mar...@hinner.info: Hi, I will start one more hot discussion. Sorry if it was discussed earlier, I am not regular reader of this mailing-list. I tried to search google, found several discussions, but no real

Re: Wine viruses

2009-02-18 Thread Vincent Povirk
2009/2/18 IneedAname wineap...@googlemail.com: Why not make Wine honor the noexe flag on the mount? This might not be a bad idea, if it's possible. Make Wine refuse to run apps on noexec filesystems. This already doesn't work, even though Wine doesn't account for it. Wine can't mount

Re: Wine viruses

2009-02-18 Thread Vincent Povirk
Wine can't mount sections of an exe file with executable permissions if it's on a noexec filesystem. Err, sorry, meant to say map, not mount.

Re: Wine viruses

2009-02-18 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Vincent Povirk madewokherd+8...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/2/18 IneedAname wineap...@googlemail.com: Why not make Wine honor the noexe flag on the mount? This might not be a bad idea, if it's possible. Make Wine refuse to run apps on noexec filesystems. This

Re: Wine viruses

2009-02-18 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/19 Vincent Povirk madewokherd+8...@gmail.com: 2009/2/18 IneedAname wineap...@googlemail.com: Why not make Wine honor the noexe flag on the mount? This might not be a bad idea, if it's possible. Make Wine refuse to run apps on noexec filesystems. This already doesn't work, even though

Wine viruses

2009-02-17 Thread Martin Hinner
Hi, I will start one more hot discussion. Sorry if it was discussed earlier, I am not regular reader of this mailing-list. I tried to search google, found several discussions, but no real result: http://www.linux.com/feature/42031

Re: Wine viruses

2009-02-17 Thread Mihai Donțu
On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Martin Hinner wrote: Hi, I will start one more hot discussion. Sorry if it was discussed earlier, I am not regular reader of this mailing-list. I tried to search google, found several discussions, but no real result: http://www.linux.com/feature/42031

Re: Wine viruses

2009-02-17 Thread Ben Klein
2009/2/18 Martin Hinner mar...@hinner.info: Hi, I will start one more hot discussion. Sorry if it was discussed earlier, I am not regular reader of this mailing-list. I tried to search google, found several discussions, but no real result: It won't be very hot.

Re: Wine viruses

2009-02-17 Thread Kai Blin
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 17:11:20 Martin Hinner wrote: Hi, I will start one more hot discussion. Sorry if it was discussed earlier, I am not regular reader of this mailing-list. I tried to search google, found several discussions, but no real result: http://www.linux.com/feature/42031