RE: [SLUG] WINE application installation questions

From: Jonathon Conte (thesicktwist@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 29 2006 - 23:25:54 EST


>From: Logan Tygart <thelogan@allyourbase-arebelongto.us>
>Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>To: SLUG <slug@nks.net>
>Subject: RE: [SLUG] WINE application installation questions
>Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:08:11 -0500
>
>Heh, a SLUG member wrote an amusing article about the unlikelihood of
>this happening:
>
>http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/25/1430222
>
>The Logan

It's not the viruses I'm worried about. What makes me nervous is every
Windows application launched with read and write rights to every file on the
system. It's like logging into X as root--there is little incentive and lots
of risk in doing so.

Jonathon

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