Ubuntu, Wine, and viruses

[ruscook]

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 22:14 -0400, Peter N Spotts wrote:

> 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...
> 
> PeteMaybe th


Maybe they are included in Wine for increased compatibility with
Windows..... (tongue firmly in cheek for those with no sense of humour)

Russ
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