[ale] Wow Ubuntu Rocks.

William Bagwell rb211 at tds.net
Mon Dec 10 16:33:47 EST 2007


On Monday 10 December 2007, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> I slapped a laptop together for my son and dropped Gutsy on it. He got
> all exicet and ran and got a CD game he wanted to play. He stuck it in
> and it just ran. It was a winders game! Then the security ramifications
> hit: if a user can just install windows software, then there is enough
> of a wine framework to support virus propagation.

Not as serious of a problem as you might think. Yes it is possible...

Will send you (in private) a post from the CrossOver list that explains 
this in detail. Will also seek permission to post it here, or post a link 
to it if the CXO list has public archives.
-- 
William



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