I'd be a little worried about ransomeware with wine - I remember a virus some years ago which did ugly stuff to excel files (IIRC), and it came in through wine and trashed stuff in my $HOME. All my wine stuff now is done in sandboxes.
On 3 May 2016 at 18:40, Niels Kobschaetzki <ni...@kobschaetzki.net> wrote: > On 16/05/03 15:08, Fernando Cassia wrote: > >> On 5/2/16, jd1008 <jd1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> How does that open up Linux to more viruses? You mean that crackers will >>>> suddenly start to use exploiting bugs in Linux-software to break into >>>> windows-boxes because a tiny amount of users will install this (after >>>> all only command line software runs with the Linux-integration)?You mean >>>> that crackers will suddenly start to use exploiting bugs in >>>> Linux-software to break into windows-boxes because a tiny amount of >>>> users will install this (after all only command line software runs with >>>> the Linux-integration)? >>>> -- >>>> >>> If linux is the guest on windows, there is no guarantee >>> that the virus will not be able to infect the machine emulator. >>> and whatever is running on top of emulator. >>> >> > Afaik it doesn't run in an emulator but more like wine. But I still do > not get why that would expose Linux itself to a greater thread? That's > still a Windows-machine getting infected. You mean like a virus, worm > whatever would be injected into the binaries and then break into > Linux-systems and infect them…like in the movies? oO > > So will Fedora be removing WINE too? Because that allows win32 code to >> run on Linux... >> *sarcasm* >> > > Hm wine…I wonder what ransomware executed with wine would do… > > Niels > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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