[Bug 1419] disable applications running under WINE from accessing network

[Wine Bugs]

http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1419

------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2003-28-06 11:06 -------
Bug comments restored from Gmane.org:

It would be nice to have an option for wine.conf that disallows applications 
running under WINE from accessing the network. This would be especially helpful 
in the situation where a user would like to run an email attachment without 
having to worry about spreading the latest MS virus.

------- Additional Comments From fgouget <at> codeweavers.com  2003-05-04 20:20 
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There was a discussion on wine-devel about that subject and the conclusion was 
that Wine is the wrong level for implementing this kind of feature. 
Instead, this sort of feature should be implemented at the Unix level by 
preventing (some/specific) applications from making specific system calls, e.g. 
network system calls, which would prevent malicious Linux applications from 
doing bad things.

Using such a framework it would be possible to prevent Wine, and thus Windows 
applications, from accessing the network, accessing specific directories or 
files, etc, etc. And the advantage is that this would even stop cross-platform 
viruses, i.e. viruses that know about Wine and make Linux system calls when they 
detect they are on Linux.