Wine to be used as botnet testbed

[Maik Schulz]

More in the linked New York Times article, Sandia National Labs plans  
to have a Dell super computer run 1 million Linux instances using Wine  
to host and study a botnet: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/science/28comp.html?_r=1

Does someone on the list have more detailed information on or is even  
involved with it? How about we post about this on winehq.org as well?  
Would be a departure from posing only about new releases and WWN  
issues, but it could make winehq.org more interesting for users... I'd  
volunteer...

Cheers,
-Maik

[David Gerard]

2009/7/29 Maik Schulz :
> More in the linked New York Times article, Sandia National Labs plans to
> have a Dell super computer run 1 million Linux instances using Wine to host
> and study a botnet:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/science/28comp.html?_r=1
> Does someone on the list have more detailed information on or is even
> involved with it? How about we post about this on winehq.org as well? Would
> be a departure from posing only about new releases and WWN issues, but it
> could make winehq.org more interesting for users... I'd volunteer...

Now we wait till malware starts detecting Wine, and we can file bugs
saying that the malware is not sufficiently suported in Wine because
it behaves differently to how it does Windows ;-p

- d.