On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 07:36:54PM +0000, 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.
However, the "Z:" drive in Wine is just a suggested feature; it's quite possible to run Wine without it. Something like Knoppix will automount all drives, but a sane, secure distribution generally requires manual intervention (as root) to even access non-Linux partitions. -- David Lee Lambert (also [EMAIL PROTECTED]) cell ph# 586-873-8813 PGP key at http://www.cse.msu.edu/~lamber45/newmail.htm#GPGKey resume at http://www.cse.msu.edu/~lamber45/resume.htm