I remember my last attempt to run a virus under wine caused a total loss of my .wine structure but didn't manage to cause any damage to my sandbox (including a juicy fake address list). I was really let down as I expected carnage.
Just as a silly outside thought; would it be worth keeping track of some of the bigger windows virus so we can see how good wine compatibiliy with all of the nitty gritty bugs of windows really is? Also this would allow us to identify dangerous areas in wine were the ability to affect the linux environment cross over.
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 3:27 AM, Marcus Meissner meissner@suse.de wrote:
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 08:32:23AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
http://wearenixed.blogspot.com/2008/03/you-only-know-good-when-youve-seen-ba...
"I had set her up with a perfect Wine install. She had a bit of software that needed to run under wine and I had shown her how to install within that environment. Apparently, I wasn't specific enough. It never occurred to Paula that the .exe programs she had used on her XP machine were the vehicles for many of her present viruses. To her, it was perfectly fine to use those same .exe's...after all, she was in Linux, right?
I got there within the same hour and checked her machine. Yep...Windows viruses will reside and create the same havoc within a Wine environment. Now, I've seen it with my own eyes. This time I reinstalled for her and made sure I found all the infected .exe's on the Windows side and deleted them."
Fortunately you can run clamscan -r ~/.wine/ without much fear for rootkits hiding the virii.
Ciao, Marcus