--- Francois Gouget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Mike Hearn wrote: > > > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:29:08 -0600, Brad DeMorrow > wrote: > >> Many also seem to be worried that a virus under > wine could do damage to > >> their other partition with windows installed. I > tell them that without > >> an entry in Wine's configuration for that virtual > drive - any pure > >> windows application wouldn't even know that such > a drive existed. > > > > That's not quite right, some viruses just do a > recursive search for all PE > > EXE/DLL files. They will find a real Windows drive > eventually if it's > > mounted r/w as drive z: makes the whole system > available. > > Yes but that's an important point. As you are not > running as root, you > may not have write access to the files in that > Windows partition. And > thus it would be safe. > > Of course this depends on how your system is > configured but I know this > is how mine is configured and I don't think it is an > unusual setup (but > I don't have hard statistics to back it up so I may > be wrong).
Here's something to add into the mix... I'm not quite sure how other Linux distros work, but Sun's JDS mounts any Windows partitions under /windows/[drive letter] . IIRC, Wine makes drive Z the root. So, a virus theoretically could go through each drive, eventually hit Z drive, and then from there, get to the Windows partitions -- that is, if the partitions are Fat32, it can do damage. Hiji __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail