Anti Virus, now Anti Spy-ware

Steve Lamb grey at dmiyu.org
Wed Jun 18 01:34:04 UTC 2008


James Takac wrote:
> There is another possible way it **might** get in, aka, running said binary 
> installs through the likes of wine. I'm no expert here and don't understand 
> the workings of wine enough to know just how probable this scene is though

     Insignificant.  Spyware acts by introducing itself into the boot sequence 
of Windows.  Wine does not boot so no boot sequence to introduce itself into.




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