Programs which is coded as windows executable binary is supported by the windows compatibility layer Wine. So one can run a executable virus program using wine in Linux system too. But virus programs are autorun executables and which is not possible using wine and an autorun script in Linux. Thus it is possible only to run such a program forcefully.Thus a virus will act as a virus as same as in windows environment. You have to work to find and run them. Some of them are even able to replicate and propagate. Some of the complex h/w access made by the programs are not allowed by wine and thus some of them will not work anyway. They can slow down the system by generating multiple process threads and unrestricted usage of resources. "ps -A" will show those processes with ".exe" postfix. As I've noticed the program which which works as a virus can only do anything inside /home folder and I can suggest you to keep your valuable files outside your home folder. Those programs seems to rise the processor load when run with wine. As a conclusion these are the points...
1 . Windows Virus programs can be run by wine under Linux 2 . Viruses are not as dangerous in Linux as if they were in Windows. 3 . If you are using Wine keep your /home clean 4 . Find Linux alternatives of programs instead of using wine. 5 . Read Wine Wiki -- http://wiki.winehq.org/ On Oct 30, 11:10 pm, Shino Jacob <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it possible to inject a virus using wine? > I tried deleting a file using a tc++ program and it worked using > wine and deleted a file from the file system. is there a way to > restrict this, I mean > using wine options. > > -- > Miles to go before I Sleep --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
