On Thursday 31 October 2002 08:10 am, Raul Dias wrote: > My $0.02, > > A way to make it more secure is to catch key API calls and decide if > the application is allowed to run it or not.
not a bad idea. > Wine could implement a clean Security Layer: YES Clean, perhaps, but secure? That depends on what you are trying to achieve: since the unix API is available to apps running under wine, such measures will only secure applications which don't specifically check for wine and circumvent its api-level security measures. So, for example, this could be used to protect a system against security flaws in Internet Exploder or Outlook... but a malicious virus writer could work around winapi-based security provisions, as discussed earlier in this thread. -- gmt "The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people" --President Bill Clinton, MTV interview, 1993
