On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:29, Brad DeMorrow wrote:
I took the time to explain to each person that many of the viruses that plague the windows users are simply because of the insecure OS and applications such as Outlook or Internet Explorer. If one managed to get a windows virus under wine - they would most likely have to do it manually, which is possible - but a lot easier to protect against. Just
If they're running Outlook Express under Wine as their email client it's just as easy to get a Windows virus or worm as it is under real Windows. Whether there are any permanent effects depends only on how the virus or worm hooks into the system and whether the user runs wineboot.
Even if they don't run Outlook Express, with Linux 2.6 there is a facility to have the kernel recognise foreign executable file formats and run them by means of another executable. If used to run Wine executables (and somebody on /. yesterday indicated they had done this), it makes Windows executables as easy to run as native Linux executables ("program.exe" works just as well as "wine program.exe" in such a case).