Re: Another virus-in-wine story

2009-10-25 Thread Nicholas LaRoche
Scott Ritchie wrote: Stefan Dösinger wrote: Am 25.10.2009 um 10:57 schrieb Scott Ritchie: Many apps don't need to view the user folder for documents but also employ programmable scripting engines - a good example are games. It would be much more convenient to pass some sort of "sandbox me, all

Re: Another virus-in-wine story

2009-10-25 Thread Nicholas LaRoche
Scott Ritchie wrote: Dan Kegel wrote: On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Nicholas LaRoche wrote: A few months ago there was a topic in wine-devel on the same subject. A toggle switch for portions of the wine API (i.e. networking), WINEPREFIX, and SELinux seems to make this a non-issue. The

Re: Another virus-in-wine story

2009-10-24 Thread Nicholas LaRoche
Dan Kegel wrote: This is about the fifth article of this sort, so it's not really news anymore, but it's still fun to read about. TFA is clueless about how to clean up a wine installation (he thought uninstalling wine would do it), buts lots of readers supply the missing clue. http://linux.slas

Multiple wineservers?

2009-10-07 Thread Nicholas LaRoche
Is it possible to run more than 1 version of wineserver concurrently? -Nick

Re: Status of LoadLibrary and .so

2009-09-10 Thread Nicholas LaRoche
Paul Chitescu wrote: On Thursday 10 September 2009 22:10:37 Joe Dluzen wrote: Hi all, back a few years ago it didn't: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2003-July/018498.html Does anyone know of the status of LoadLibrary and a .so? Can it load directly or is there a workaround that doe

Re: Question regarding SIO_GET_EXTENSION_FUNCTION_POINTER

2009-09-08 Thread Nicholas LaRoche
Mike Kaplinskiy wrote: On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Nicholas LaRoche wrote: Mike Kaplinskiy wrote: On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Nicholas LaRoche wrote: I ran into a bug last week regarding the lack of SIO_GET_EXTENSION_FUNCTION_POINTER support in WSAIoctl. Are there any outstanding

Re: Question regarding SIO_GET_EXTENSION_FUNCTION_POINTER

2009-09-07 Thread Nicholas LaRoche
Mike Kaplinskiy wrote: On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Nicholas LaRoche wrote: I ran into a bug last week regarding the lack of SIO_GET_EXTENSION_FUNCTION_POINTER support in WSAIoctl. Are there any outstanding issues preventing it's implementation? Perhaps if anyone has worked in this

Question regarding SIO_GET_EXTENSION_FUNCTION_POINTER

2009-09-06 Thread Nicholas LaRoche
I ran into a bug last week regarding the lack of SIO_GET_EXTENSION_FUNCTION_POINTER support in WSAIoctl. Are there any outstanding issues preventing it's implementation? Perhaps if anyone has worked in this area, are there any things I should look out for when trying to implement it? At first

Re: Wine being targeted for adware

2009-01-16 Thread Nicholas LaRoche
Gert van den Berg wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Austin English > wrote: >> Of course, Wine is open source, so if someone wants to edit it for >> that purpose, by all means, do so. I'm not sure that Wine _should_ do >> so though, at least, not now. Networking on a per app basis I can s

Re: Wine being targeted for adware

2009-01-15 Thread Nicholas LaRoche
from this. >> Anyway, a "nice to have" feature. >> >> Best wishes and thanks for this amazing software, >> >> 2009/1/14 >>> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:07:06 -0500 >>> From: Nicholas LaRoche >>> Subject: Re: Wine being targeted

Re: Wine being targeted for adware

2009-01-14 Thread Nicholas LaRoche
Stefan Dösinger wrote: >> I see your point though, since none of the aforementioned security >> precautions are commonplace or specifically targeted to wine. > A security measure targetted to wine would be a wrong thing IMO. > > Either its designed for Windows, then it will protect the Windows app

Re: Wine being targeted for adware

2009-01-14 Thread Nicholas LaRoche
Stefan Dösinger wrote: >> As long as the facilities exist for keeping an entire wine bottle >> isolated from other bottles (and ~/) I don't see this being a major >> issue. > They don't. > > Even if you don't have a drive link pointing out of a bottle, a Windows app > running in Wine can still cal

Re: Wine being targeted for adware

2009-01-14 Thread Nicholas LaRoche
Jeff Zaroyko wrote: > http://philosecurity.org/2009/01/12/interview-with-an-adware-author > > In an interesting interview, former adware author Matt Knox mentions > that he was able to run his adware client on Wine: > > S: In your professional opinion, how can people avoid adware? > M: Um, run UN

Does preloader attempt to fix ASR?

2009-01-08 Thread Nicholas LaRoche
On a standard installation of Fedora 10 address space randomization is enabled by default. The base address of a process started by wine seems to change.. and it is easy to see when loading Dlls and checking their base addresses. Does the preloader attempt to compensate for this? Or is it neces