On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 00:14:10 -0400
"Bob S."
Thanks to all for all of the scary replies. You all have made me very nervous. I have been OK so far, and since I NEVER download anything including e-mail into windows, let alone use unknown flopppies or CDs anymore, I suppose I will be safe until I can finally dump windows.
One more question though, (In the interest of installing my specialized windows only programs in Linux, if they will work), If I use a "stand alone" wine, (without using the real windows registry etc.) will that also be vulnerable??
I use standalone wine, and I believe if I am careless, I could run a virus which could erase my homedir. When running wine, the linux kernel is still behind the scenes observing permissions. So the very worst that could happen, is you could erase what you own....your homedir. -- I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.