On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:51:04 +0000 Anne Wilson disseminated the following: > > Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and > > worms. Don't run Wine as root after it is installed. Then, you > > won't hurt the overall Linux system, although you will still be > > able to really mess up your user stuff if a virus gets executed. > > > Is it vulnerable only when actually running a windows program, or vulnerable > by the very fact of being there?
IIANM, Windows malware (is there any other kind...?), even run under Wine, would have very little if no effect on a Linux system. Firstly, it's going to be looking for files/folders/directories that do not exist (c:\Windows, \System32, Documents and Settings, etc.). Second, it will attempt to run other common commands/executables or exploit services which would exist on a Win system but not on Linux, like, say...well, all of them ;-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:52:44 up 34 days, 10:05, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged." -- Noam Chomsky
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