On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 7:34 AM, openbala <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
.. file systems, why risk using it in the first place, windows based viruses will be easily found in linux file system, take a backup of your USB data in linux, format your USB and then use it with Windows or WINE. This might help if your question was out of curiosity: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1469751.html _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
