Ubuntu, Wine, and viruses

[James Takac]

On Thursday 13 September 2007 11:48:34 Peter N Spotts wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I ran a virus scan today and found six infected files -- all, not
> surprisingly, attached to system files under wine. Just out of
> curiosity, how do viruses end up there? Such beauties as Win32:Parite
> and VBS:Malware. Wine doesn't run unless specifically invoked with a
> program, so even if I could open an *.exe file attached to an email, it
> wouldn't run. And I never run a browser or email client under wine; all
> are Linux based. The wine install itself came from Wine's website
> (debian package). Just curious...
>
> Pete
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Hi Pete

Can think of 2 possibilities here

1 - False positives
2 - They were part of something you installed under wine

James