Wine (Windows emulator for Linux) Thumbs Up!

[goontron]

Re: Wine (Windows emulator for Linux) Thumbs Up!

Might as well put in my $.05. I had someone come to me with an encrypted /home/<user> dir... There was cryptowall 2 in the ./wine dir. He also had an old Windows hard drive over USB set as a virtual drive. It was encrypted. It can ascend into a dir, but not decend past the wineroot. It's essentially a chroot jail security wise from what I understand.

[eccerr0r]

Re: Wine (Windows emulator for Linux) Thumbs Up!

Watch out, as said, if you have mapped drives, it can touch each of these. Technically it's not a chroot but rather Wine will only know about any drives it has mapped. I think by default, the Z: drive is mapped to your home directory, and I'm sure cryptolocker would have fun with that.

You could unmap Z: but I would imagine people have mapped drives for convenience, but in this case it would be a curse.

[stj]

Re: Wine (Windows emulator for Linux) Thumbs Up!

another possibility is Wine crashed but didn't terminate all the child processes associated with Wine and just kept running in the background.

that i have had, but it usually leaves the wine window open.

[SteveNielsen]

Re: Wine (Windows emulator for Linux) Thumbs Up!

I don't think drive mapping vs UNC is relevant, as long as the FS privileges are there the location is accessible.

[goontron]

Re: Wine (Windows emulator for Linux) Thumbs Up!

I don't think drive mapping vs UNC is relevant, as long as the FS privileges are there the location is accessible.

That's filesystem dependant.

[Spork Schivago]

Re: Wine (Windows emulator for Linux) Thumbs Up!

that i have had, but it usually leaves the wine window open.

I'll fire up my Linux system in a few days. Haven't had it running for a while now. I've been busy working on various stuff on this Windows machine of my wife's. I'll run some tests. First, I'll see if Wine is running in the background. It shouldn't be. Then I'll start a Windows executable and then exit. Then I'll check to see if Wine is still running.

[SteveNielsen]

Re: Wine (Windows emulator for Linux) Thumbs Up!

That's filesystem dependant.

As far as I know there are no current file-systems in use that do not support common network/drive/directory/path naming conventions or the equivalent, and certainly not any that are supported by Linux, therefore in regard to Wine it is irrelevant. All that is necessary for any file operations is appropriate file rights.

[stj]

Re: Wine (Windows emulator for Linux) Thumbs Up!

i'm not so sure,

if i open a file browser in wine/win and browse outside of the defined "drives" i can see the file, but it wont load - i get an error message.

[stj]

Re: Wine (Windows emulator for Linux) Thumbs Up!

gives me an idea, i wonder if wine can run/fool malware-bytes etc

[goontron]

Re: Wine (Windows emulator for Linux) Thumbs Up!

As far as I know there are no current file-systems in use that do not support common network/drive/directory/path naming conventions or the equivalent, and certainly not any that are supported by Linux, therefore in regard to Wine it is irrelevant. All that is necessary for any file operations is appropriate file rights.

I was thinking farther along the lines of missing Unix permission capabilities....