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List:       wine-devel
Subject:    Re: Malware on Wine review
From:       Gert van den Berg <wine-devel () mohag ! net>
Date:       2009-02-26 5:48:17
Message-ID: 79a63cc50902252148l38f65dfbh74b106244b03b32f () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Ben Klein <shacklein@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/2/26 King InuYasha <ngompa13@gmail.com>:
>> Also, NTFS DOES have a concept of execute bits, but Windows itself does not
>> use them. An implementation of this is the "trusted" app scheme in the
>> properties in Windows Vista and above (I don't remember if XPSP2 had it
>> also). Although this scheme is mostly broken, it was intended to stop the
>> execution of apps just downloaded from the internet from a non-trusted
>> source.
>
> NTFS has the concept of metadata. Windows does not use it as an
> equivalent for +x bit though. And even if it did, it wouldn't be a big
> help for Wine, because Wine doesn't like NTFS :)
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb776297(VS.85).aspx

(And I mentioned it in my blog post mentioned earlier)

Gert


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