Like the title says, I have a very nasty virus on wine. I swear I've also encountered this same one (A few months ago) on a seperate vista machine. I Have a virus that does not seem to be doing anything, and stopped working after an 'X' reboot. However, It did try to execute a modified version of winlogo.exe (Windows logon executable), but we all know you can't log onto a Linux system with Wine. So ever since it went doormat, The ONLY issue i've been having is with BitTorrent (And that is not much of an issue since I now use a different torrent manager), it just lags a lot, and takes forever to process a single click into the application. I can run much more complicated applications on wine, such as Spore, a windows game including GLSL rendering, and I'm surprised a game like this runs under a virus without an issue. (It's awesome! :D) I'm just asking if I should be worried about this. I also want to remove anyways, and is there a way I can protect my wine from malicious software before things like this happen? Thanks.
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:06 AM, wacossusca34 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Like the title says, I have a very nasty virus on wine. I swear I've also encountered this same one (A few months ago) on a seperate vista machine. I Have a virus that does not seem to be doing anything, and stopped working after an 'X' reboot. However, It did try to execute a modified version of winlogo.exe (Windows logon executable), ?but we all know you can't log onto a Linux system with Wine. > > So ever since it went doormat, The ONLY issue i've been having is with BitTorrent (And that is not much of an issue since I now use a different torrent manager), it just lags a lot, and takes forever to process a single click into the application. > > I can run much more complicated applications on wine, such as Spore, a windows game including GLSL rendering, and I'm surprised a game like this runs under a virus without an issue. (It's awesome! :D) > > I'm just asking if I should be worried about this. I also want to remove anyways, and is there a way I can protect my wine from malicious software before things like this happen? > > Thanks.1. Delete your wine prefix 2. Do not run anything under wine using root, su or sudo 3. Install clamav in linux - this will protect against windows viruses but not malware. 4. Use a linux native bittorrent client. There are many good ones. John M. Drescher
wacossusca34 wrote:> > I'm just asking if I should be worried about this. I also want to remove anyways, and is there a way I can protect my wine from malicious software before things like this happen? >http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-3cb8f054b33a63be30f98a1b6225d74e305a0459 Delete the wineprefix and run a virus scan on your home directory. And in the future, be more careful.
Bend it to your will! It logging in as root is bad! Make a on-root account, and log into that, and never as root. Use sudo or su or gksudo or whatever when you need elevated rights. It logging in as root by default could have something to do with this virus. Get Well Soon, Jake