[plug] viruses.?

[Shayne O'Neill]

The problem I see here is that virus checkers etc work at a fundamentally
deep level in the OS's belly. If anything is going to fail under wine,
this'd be it!



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On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, James Devenish wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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