Anti Virus, now Anti Spy-ware

[James Takac]

Hi Steve

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Steve Lamb <grey at dmiyu.org> wrote:

> 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.
>


>
> I did mention I didn't know enough about wine. Though my experience with
> windows is that spyware will try to introduce itself more or less  to the
> areas that windows will try to execute upon it's booting which is different
> to going through the boot sequence, i.e. oncw\e windows has loaded it will
> see what it is asked to load up before the user sees the desktop proper. not
> before windows loads. Most can be killed by monitoring such areas as the
> startup menu in the start menu, or the runonce entry in the registry, etc.
> For the most part they're not that hard to spot thru the task manager either
> whern viewing the processes. It's just that with windows being the more
> popular os it's the one that attrats the attention of those wanting to reach
> the most targets. Once the situtation reverses and linux becomes the more
> popular os, it's likely to change


James
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