Dan Kegel wrote:
This is about the fifth article of this sort, so it's not really news
anymore, but it's still fun to read about.
TFA is clueless about how to clean up a wine
installation (he thought uninstalling wine would do it),
buts lots of readers supply the missing clue.
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/10/24/1759213/Now-Linux-Can-Get-Viruses-Via-Wine
A few months ago there was a topic in wine-devel on the same subject. A
toggle switch for portions of the wine API (i.e. networking),
WINEPREFIX, and SELinux seems to make this a non-issue.
The default wine SELinux configuration for Fedora 11 denies quite a bit
of behavior. (Try compiling and using HEAD without setting the security
context or entering permissive mode and you'll see what I mean).
Does this even need to be handled at the wine level to prevent
system-wide corruption? It seems like other security technologies
already provide this protection.
-Nick
