I'd be a little worried about ransomeware with wine - I remember a virus
some years ago which did ugly stuff to excel files (IIRC), and it came in
through wine and trashed stuff in my $HOME. All my wine stuff now is done
in sandboxes.
On 3 May 2016 at 18:40, Niels Kobschaetzki <niels(a)kobschaetzki.net> wrote:
On 16/05/03 15:08, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On 5/2/16, jd1008 <jd1008(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> How does that open up Linux to more viruses? You mean that crackers will
>>> suddenly start to use exploiting bugs in Linux-software to break into
>>> windows-boxes because a tiny amount of users will install this (after
>>> all only command line software runs with the Linux-integration)?You mean
>>> that crackers will suddenly start to use exploiting bugs in
>>> Linux-software to break into windows-boxes because a tiny amount of
>>> users will install this (after all only command line software runs with
>>> the Linux-integration)?
>>> --
>>>
>> If linux is the guest on windows, there is no guarantee
>> that the virus will not be able to infect the machine emulator.
>> and whatever is running on top of emulator.
>>
>
Afaik it doesn't run in an emulator but more like wine. But I still do
not get why that would expose Linux itself to a greater thread? That's
still a Windows-machine getting infected. You mean like a virus, worm
whatever would be injected into the binaries and then break into
Linux-systems and infect them…like in the movies? oO
So will Fedora be removing WINE too? Because that allows win32 code to
> run on Linux...
> *sarcasm*
>
Hm wine…I wonder what ransomware executed with wine would do…
Niels
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