charles arnould
2006-Aug-24 10:58 UTC
[Wine] viruses for mswindows on a linux machine running wine
Hello I have a very complete installation of wine with a lot of dll's and executables in .wine/... /system and system32 I have tried many windows apps and found a lot working perfectly - just to try as I dont need them: native Linux apps do as well for me I currently use Acroread.exe which seems to run better than the linux apps to view the .pdf I also use IZArc.exe to unpack uncommon archives - works fine and Myco32.exe from Myco06 for mycological researches - works perfectly That is all what I currently use with wine My question is: can a windows virus - like Mytob.GH for instance, or any other .bat or .exe virus install itself on such a system ?
Ramon Klass
2006-Aug-24 11:47 UTC
[Wine] viruses for mswindows on a linux machine running wine
> My question is: can a windows virus - like Mytob.GH for instance, or any > other .bat or .exe virus install itself on such a system ?no, most methods that virii use to install themself (get the system to run them on each reboot) are being ignored by wine. But nonetheless, the virus can be run once and can cause damage. But there have been recent efforts to integrate a virus scanner into wine to stop harmful code from being executed. The only reference I could find though is this: http://wiki.winehq.org/ClamAntiVirusIntegration?highlight=%28clam%29 maybe somebody knows more about the topic? Greetings Ramon Klass