On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:45 AM, balaji sivanath <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, > i installed wine for using my windows application,now exe files can be > run in ubuntu. if i insert pendrive which is having virus and > mistakenly if i ran it in wine,will the virus affect my system?
Unfortunately, it is not that straight forward to use USB with wine. It seems there are ways to do it - http://wiki.winehq.org/USB, but then, the questions that need to be asked is: 1. Do you really need WINE? (linux has better softwares than the one that will run on WINE and the softwares that are truly unique and not available in linux usually don't run on WINE) 2. If you know your USB has virus that would affect Windows _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
