On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 08:32:23AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > http://wearenixed.blogspot.com/2008/03/you-only-know-good-when-youve-seen-bad.html > > "I had set her up with a perfect Wine install. She had a bit > of software that needed to run under wine and I had shown her > how to install within that environment. Apparently, I wasn't > specific enough. It never occurred to Paula that the .exe > programs she had used on her XP machine were the vehicles for > many of her present viruses. To her, it was perfectly fine to > use those same .exe's...after all, she was in Linux, right? > > I got there within the same hour and checked her > machine. Yep...Windows viruses will reside and create the same > havoc within a Wine environment. Now, I've seen it with my own > eyes. This time I reinstalled for her and made sure I found > all the infected .exe's on the Windows side and deleted them."
Fortunately you can run clamscan -r ~/.wine/ without much fear for rootkits hiding the virii. Ciao, Marcus
