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Is installing wine in Ubuntu safe? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Risks/Disadvantages associated with Wine According to many articles like this one, it says that windows is more vulnerable to virus. I recently installed wine on my Ubuntu to ...
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Are there really security risk when running Wine? [duplicate]

I remember reading somewhere that since Wine's job is to pretty much emulate Windows so that you can run Windows programs, it puts a risk on your Linux machine since Windows Viruses can also run ...
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Viruses in wine? [duplicate]

The Story I installed wine some time ago, and after trying out some versions of Cinema 4D that were "free", I looked in the comments of the videos, and saw some people complaining about viruses. I ...
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Will installing wine will allow the hackers to hack into my Ubuntu computer just like what happens in Windows? [duplicate]

What if I installed an .exe game with a trojan using wine on my Ubuntu? Would this allow the hackers to hack into my device just like what happens usually on Windows? What about the viruses that work ...
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Wine - Security risks - Dofus warns it's being run by administrator [duplicate]

Not having the ability to install a game (which I appreciate a lot) in a classic way (normal Linux installation), I decided to use Wine (wine-stable). First I heard that Wine is not a security risk ...
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Is it secure to run windows application on linux? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Risks/Disadvantages associated with Wine I wanted to run windows applications on ubuntu. So i installed winehq. My question is that, is it secure to run windows applications ...
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Can a wine program access files outside of the virtual C: drive? [duplicate]

I have to run a program that I don't really trust and I afraid that it may mess up my computer. It is a Windows program so I have to run it in Wine, but I don't want it to access anything outside the ...
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How to tell if wine is rooted? [duplicate]

I’ve heard that wine can install window viruses if rooted. How can I tell if my wine is rooted?
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Questions about how malwares might operate under wine [duplicate]

a recent scan by clamav found that a few exe files in the WINE directory are infected with a trojan (called Ratnim?). A have a few specific questions on what a windows malware can do under linux. 1) ...
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Accessing IE only sites

Still there are companies who believe Windows is the only OS and IE is the only browser around. This prompts them to make sites which can be accessed only in IE. Though I have dual-boot system I boot ...
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Wine doesn't run 90% of my games correctly, display is hugely magnified [closed]

I have many games on my PC including GTA 3, NFS MW, San Andreas, Vice City, but the wine program loader doesn't seem to work on them. The game is magnified so much that I can see only the top right ...
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Still can't install Wine in Ubuntu 20.04 [duplicate]

I know this question has at least half a dozen with a similar title, but none of those answers or comments help me. So here we go: I tried to follow the instructions on the Wine Wiki. When I did sudo ...
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I'm whining about wine, windows and linux [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What if I run a virus/trojan Windows EXE on Ubuntu with Wine? If I run a program that's windows (exe) on a linux system, find out that it was infected with a virus, will it ...
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gksu doesn't show the installed program folders into wine folder

I use Ubuntu Studio 16.04 LTS. I tried to edit some specific parameters of an specific Windows software (which must be used with Wine), so I used gksu to open the ".wine" folders with root privileges ...
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What are the implications of installing WINE while booting from a liveDVD?

For various personal reasons I want to use a liveDVD for some tasks which include playing a game that works with WINE. I will be using Ubuntu or Mint because I am most familiar with those. Questions ...
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