On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 07:36:54PM +, 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 con
David D. Hagood wrote:
On 01/27/2005 03:03 PM, Troy Rollo wrote:
Even if they don't run Outlook Express, with Linux 2.6 there is a
facility to have the kernel recognise foreign executable file formats
and run them by means of another executable. If used to run Wine
executables (and somebody on /
On 01/27/2005 03:03 PM, Troy Rollo wrote:
Even if they don't run Outlook Express, with Linux 2.6 there is a facility to
have the kernel recognise foreign executable file formats and run them by
means of another executable. If used to run Wine executables (and somebody
on /. yesterday indicated t
--- Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 13:45 -0800, Hiji wrote:
> > That said, the JDS does a lot of stuff for you.
> By
> > default, it automounts windows partitions so
> basically
> > anyone can write to them (root or not). In this
> case,
> > with this specific dis
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 13:45 -0800, Hiji wrote:
> That said, the JDS does a lot of stuff for you. By
> default, it automounts windows partitions so basically
> anyone can write to them (root or not). In this case,
> with this specific distro, a virus would have write
> access to that partition. I
--- Francois Gouget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Hiji wrote:
> [...]
> > 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 dr
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Hiji wrote:
[...]
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, eve
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:29, Brad DeMorrow wrote:
> I took the time to explain to each person that many of the viruses that
> plague the windows users are simply because of the insecure OS and
> applications such as Outlook or Internet Explorer. If one managed to
> get a windows virus under wine - t
--- 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 the
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 - a
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
Marcus Meissner wrote:
Hi,
Fun article ... author tests various viruses with WINE.
http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/25/1430222&from=rss
Ciao, Marcus
I actually have run across quite a few people who were quite worried
about the ability of wine to run all of the viruses that windows do
Hi,
Fun article ... author tests various viruses with WINE.
http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/25/1430222&from=rss
Ciao, Marcus
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