I have something in windows that I scanned that is a virus and a application so I booted into linux to run it. Can Wine get a virus?
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I have something in windows that I scanned that is a virus and a application so I booted into linux to run it. Can Wine get a virus?
In theory, I guess. However since WINE is not an entire Microsoft Windows operating system the damage a virus could do is pretty well confined. Windows viruses do not affect Linux. In the absolute worst case scenario you'd end up uninstalling and reinstalling WINE. That's it.Quote:
Originally Posted by JTB7
Yes. Wine can get virus and make your system un-bootable. Be careful while using Wine and never run it as root.
If anyone run winei as Regular user then virus will affect /home only but as running Wine as root could end up hosing everything. One has to re-install whole OS.Quote:
Originally Posted by techieMoe
Running Windows Viruses With Wine
Even though it's a 3 year old article, it's still a good one :P
Here is the other one. Go through whole thread. Its an interesting read.
How could a virus written to affect Microsoft Windows DLL files and executables "hose" a Linux system at all? Explain. Yes, in theory a root-enabled MS Windows virus running in Wine would have access to Linux system files, but how would it have any clue what to do with them?Quote:
Originally Posted by devils casper
Please check the link that I posted in post #5. I have faced exactly similar problem a year and half back. I didn't know much about Linux that time.
Well, the best I can see from the thread is that if you run a virus in WINE with root privileges it can muck things up. Thus, a very simple fix is to never run WINE with root privileges. Then, as I said before, the only thing that it can screw up is stuff in your /home/ folder.Quote:
Originally Posted by devils casper
Thats what I mentioned in my first post in this thread. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by techieMoe
Ok. You got me. I stand corrected. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by devils casper