+++ Thaths [2006-01-20 13:21:51]: > But isn't running IE on top of Xover inherantly safer than running IE > on Windows? I have not heard of malware being installed through IE > running on Xover. OTOH, I have heard of lots of incidents where > malware entering a Windows system through IE. BTW, I know we are > talking about Outlook and IE. I use IE to illustrate the point that > running Windows applications on Xover is inherantly safer than running > the application natively on Windows.
Wine aims for bug for bug compatibility with Windows.. The recently discovered WMF vulnerability affected Wine users too... http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200601-09.xml So most IE specific exploits would work under wine too, so a worm that exploits IE alone will be able to install and propagate itself. But if it depends on some other windows component/library that isn't present it may not be very successful. But since most linux users don't work as root, and most decent wine configs allow "write access" only to specific folders on your system, the damage possible to the system is minimised when you run the windows apps under wine. (as opposed to windows users working as administrator or equal) Kingsly -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kingsly At Users Dot SourceForge Dot Net -- http://kingsly.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
