On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:04:46AM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Rodrigo Hashimoto wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I received a file via e-mail and tried to open it, then the iceweasel > > did nothing. I tried again and I realized the iceweasel was trying to > > user the "wine" to open a file ".com". Then I run the command "file" > > and I realized this is king of a virus to Windows and not Linux. > > > > This is a security risk to my debian lenny ? > > Even if it was a virus, the most it can do is affect your Wine files of > the pseudo-Windows installation. Even so, I'm not sure it will be much > effective. Even if it wrote to the registry an entry to start-up > automatically, I'm not sure Wine honors this. > > If you are in doubt, just wipe you wine files (I think they are in > ~/.wine, but I haven't used Wine in years) and start again. > > -- > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI > [email protected] > http://move.to/hpkb >
If you do this, please make sure that there isn't any wine-processes running on system. Those might still be effective. --- Henri Salo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
