-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 23:59, JoeHill wrote: > 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 ;-)
To do anything at all in a windows program you have to allow things to run, so it seems likely that there is some vulnerability to anything that is within that windows environment. I agree that it may not be as easy as on a pure windows system, but I do feel that there is still a measure of risk, and I'm just trying to quantify it. The linux system, of course, would not be attacked. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBzoxNkFAvMr/nNX8RAodkAJ9F0g62l3aforfEucaiJXJZQMQ2nACfQSX3 OnF0jE+7uvOTjv39hqYjsrU= =197L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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