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Re:WCry 2.0 functions perfectly under Wine by aeleos on Sunday May 14, 2017 @10:46PM (#14338809)
yea it seems Z: is mapped to the root fs, so if wine has the right permissions it could cause some damage.
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Re:WCry 2.0 functions perfectly under Wine by pinpeliponni on Monday May 15, 2017 @12:11AM (#14339107)
Most interesting. However, you have to butcher your system a bit in order to make that happen... That doesn't say there aren't setups like that, but they are really one out of million.
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Re:WCry 2.0 functions perfectly under Wine by wildmusings on Monday May 15, 2017 @12:29AM (#14339163)
How is that so? I believe Wine processes have r/w access to the user's home directory.
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Re:WCry 2.0 functions perfectly under Wine by Sammi on Monday May 15, 2017 @03:59AM (#14339925)
And most of your valuable stuff will be in your user dir if you're on a personal computer.
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