[plug] viruses.?

[Shayne O'Neill]

Yes, I can confirm I had ie hijack spyware activate on wine on me once.
hideous stuff.

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On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Ryan wrote:

> I've experienced this, as reported here:
>
> http://www.plug.org.au/archives/message/20040417.170357.441a8302.html
>
> Due to my persistence at visiting dodgy websites and my lack of interest
> in securing wine/file associations, I no longer have it installed on any
> of my Linux machines :)
>
> Ryan
>
> On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 15:11, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> > There have also been reports of windows virii infecting linux machines
> > via wine - I think it was trojan listening on a network port!
> >
> > Dont assume that just because it says "linux" on a bootup screen you are
> > immune ...
>
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