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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] How to protect Wine from opening malware?
From:       Billie Walsh <bilwalsh () swbell ! net>
Date:       2017-09-20 2:08:53
Message-ID: 73177e26-bcd8-dacf-3f95-1ce251873744 () swbell ! net
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On 09/19/2017 07:54 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2017-09-19 20:03, Billie Walsh wrote:
>> On 09/19/2017 07:07 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>> On 2017-09-19 13:26, Billie Walsh wrote:
>>>> On 09/19/2017 06:10 AM, Bjoern Voigt wrote:
>>>>> Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>>>>> But you are actively clicking on a .vbs file, an "executable". The
>>>>>> default action would be execute it (with wine). However, if it does
>>>>>> not have the execute flag enabled, it would be a bug to try to execute
>>>>>> it.
>>>>> Yes, I actively clicked on the VBS file in Ark, of course by mistake.
>>>>>
>>>>> Execution bit is not necessary here. I created a test.vbs file on my
>>>>> KDE
>>>>> Plasma desktop and clicked on it. No warning was displayed, Wine
>>>>> executed the file. I also see this as a bug.
>>>> It is the default Windows action. Wine simply acts as Windows would.
>>> But it is Linux who calls wine. Linux should not call wine to "open" a
>>> known executable file unless it has the executable bit.
>> Woulda. Coulda. Shoulda.
>>
>> If it is a Windows executable it will call Wine regardless when you
>> click it. That's how it works. It's just like if your in Windows.
> No, because it is Linux who decides to call Wine, supposedly using Linux
> criteria. Windows criteria doesn't count yet, Wine is not yet running.
>
> IMHO, this is a security risk.

Yes. It is a security risk. That's why Windows is so easy to infect. You 
are automatically running in administrator mode with Windows by default. 
That's why I always set up a"user" and run Windows in user mode.

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