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Linux Desktop Hacks
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Linux Desktop Hacks

by Nicholas Petreley, Jono Bacon
March 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 9, Administration and Automation
#80 Protect Yourself from Windows Applications
HACK
You should see the same dialog if you try to open a Microsoft Word attach-
ment using Mozilla Mail. Then you can set up Mozilla Mail to run /usr/local/
bin/wordview automatically when opening attached Word documents.
The technique for setting up the Mozilla Thunderbird email client is a bit
different. When you receive a Word document, right-click it and choose
Open. This brings up a dialog that gives you the choice of saving the file or
specifying a program with which to open the file. In addition, a checkbox
(similar to the one in Figure 9-2 for Mozilla) tells Thunderbird to treat this
type of file the same way by default.
Unfortunately, it isn’t quite as easy to make the Mozilla Firefox browser
behave this way. I expect this limitation will disappear as the application
matures. Fortunately, it looks like Firefox inherits the setting from Thunder-
bird. After setting up Thunderbird to view Word documents with
wordview,
that setting seems to have magically appeared in the preferences dialog for
Firefox.
Preparing for Unlikely Damage
With everything protected in a sudo jail, the worst possible damage a virus
could do is to infect your copy of CrossOver Office. Even though I am not
aware of any virus that can attack CrossOver or Wine, it is theoretically pos-
sible, because both mimic Windows very closely. ...
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