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WCry 2.0 functions perfectly under Wine

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Re: WCry 2.0 functions perfectly under Wine

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That is pretty scary. Anyone know if there is any info on if it will only encrypt the c_drive folder that wine makes or the entire fs?

Isn't the entier fs exposed as Z: or so in wine? I know there's some way to get to the user's home directory which is probably good enough to cause essentially the same amount of pain.

> entier fs exposed as Z: or so in wine

By default only. You can easily disable that. It always made me worried that anything in wine got access to my system, even though I normally wanted something closer to an isolated instance, so I always disabled that.

Re: WCry 2.0 functions perfectly under Wine

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Isn't the entier fs exposed as Z: or so in wine? I know there's some way to get to the user's home directory which is probably good enough to cause essentially the same amount of pain.

> entier fs exposed as Z: or so in wine By default only. You can easily disable that. It always made me worried that anything in wine got access to my system, even though I normally wanted something closer to an isolated instance, so I always disabled that.

There may also be links to your home directory as "Desktop", "My Documents", etc. See winecfg for these. And note that your registry files may refer to Z: (mostly for fonts, it seems), or even directly to files outside your Wine directory.

Re: WCry 2.0 functions perfectly under Wine

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> entier fs exposed as Z: or so in wine By default only. You can easily disable that. It always made me worried that anything in wine got access to my system, even though I normally wanted something closer to an isolated instance, so I always disabled that.

There may also be links to your home directory as "Desktop", "My Documents", etc. See winecfg for these. And note that your registry files may refer to Z: (mostly for fonts, it seems), or even directly to files outside your Wine directory.

If the software is Wine-aware, it doesn't matter. The \\unix\ filesystem namespace allows programs running under Wine to access the host filesystem whether it's mapped as a drive or not. And, of course, since Wine Is Not an Emulator, it could also use POSIX APIs or Linux kernel syscalls directly if it wanted to.
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