[plug] viruses.?

[James Devenish]

In message <d12e5c90501132339183c031 at mail.gmail.com>
on Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 03:39:15PM +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> But surely the damage would be limited to the "fake drives" in that
> wine session, and ONLY when the wine session was running...the rest of
> the time it would be completely inert..

If these 'fake drives' can support the self-propagating aspect of the
worms, then they would be capable of infecting other people's computers.
If you use WINE for 3 hours at work an infect 1000 other computers, no
one's going to care that "your files are not affected because you were
using Linux". For the community's benefit, perhaps people should either
make sure WINE does not have access to the network, or install a suite
of anti-virus, anti-spyware and personal firewall.