dmitry@codeweavers.com wrote:
Is it really necessary to require running a virus scanner from inside of Wine?
No. Hey, cool, we agree on something!
and everybody knows that one should do that if one cares about viruses.
Same sentence applies to Wine I'd assume.
No, because everybody assumes Linux is impervious to viruses. (You say you dealt with this comment, but I must have missed it.)
So Wine really is different; you can't run commercial virus scanners in it,
It's still possible to run a native virus scanner outside of Wine.
Yes. And we need to encourage this, and perhaps hook into it.
Nobody denies that there is a problem, the thing is that personally I don't see why that problem is Wine specific.
Wine increases Linux's attack surface area hugely *and* attracts new users to Linux who are used to computers coming with bundled virus scanners. - Dan