[ubuntu-uk] Running .exe's off a CD?

[Alan Pope]

On 5 May 2010 21:30, Liam Wilson <liamwilson93 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thing is, I can't mark it as executable, as it's on a CD, so now, 2 things:
> 1) Why am I being blocked from running .exe's on my computer?

So you dont accidentally run "virus.exe". It makes it more of an
intentional thing to execute the program.

> 2) How do I work around this?

Copy the contents to the hard disk, run it from there?

Cheers,
Al.