Re: Wine being targeted for adware

[Ben Klein]

2009/1/14 Ben Klein :
> 2009/1/14 David Gerard :
> > 2009/1/14 Jeff Zaroyko :
> > > http://philosecurity.org/2009/01/12/interview-with-an-adware-author
> > > In an interesting interview, former adware author Matt Knox mentions
> > > that he was able to run his adware client on Wine:
> >
> > The amazing thing about that interview was how jaw-droppingly insecure
> > Windows actually is, inherently and incurably.
> >
> > I hope Wine doesn't emulate some of those wackie characteristics too well.
>
> Technically, it has to for legitimate apps to work. I'm sure there's
> some malware that doesn't work in Wine, but there's probably a large
> subset of that will work some day.

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