Ubuntu, Wine, and viruses

[Peter N Spotts]

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:01 +1000, James Takac wrote:
> 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
> 

Many thanks...

Pete
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