On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Ramnarayan. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Mir Nazim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Dinesh Uthayakumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > Doesnt wine spread worms and viruses which are vulnerable on windows ? > > > > > > > Not sure about this one but would like to know more on this. A quick > > google gave me following: > > > > http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2005-January/016730.html > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=72598 > > > > the above links lead me to this > http://www.linux.com/articles/42031 > > not the somefool virus while working under wine actually resulted in a drop > in performance on the machine.
Actually I what I think is that a wndows virus can affect targeted apps running on wine. Like if you have IE running on wine, IE velnurabilities are still open. > > ram > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > -- -- ALLAH HAFIZ ------------------------------------------- Mir Nazim ------------------------------------------- mobile: +91-9906478306 ------------------------------------------- website: http://www.xensoftlabs.com blog: http://mirnazim.wordpress.com ------------------------------------------- Yahoo, Gmail/GTalk, Skype, AOL : mirnazim -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
