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  • #32
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Snowbat wrote: »
    Only if Wine is installed. Does any distro install Wine by default? Can you double-click an exe to launch it in Wine with no further action required? (I've never used Wine)
    IIRC, Linspire was the last one I heard of that had it installed by default - and even at that it may only have been while it was branded Lindows.


  • #33
    Nichololas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭Nichololas


    Hehe I can imagine - "I'm having trouble running obviousvirus.exe under WINE, can anyone help?".

    And on a related note; there was a story on slashdot yesterday about a bit of malware inserted in a gnome screensaver (on gnome-look.org iirc). Even then it wasn't a 'virus', as it required the user to actively install it .. And it was removed from the site within 24 hours.


  • #34
    mehmeh12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 921 ✭✭✭mehmeh12


    Enlil_Nick wrote: »
    Hehe I can imagine - "I'm having trouble running obviousvirus.exe under WINE, can anyone help?".

    And on a related note; there was a story on slashdot yesterday about a bit of malware inserted in a gnome screensaver (on gnome-look.org iirc). Even then it wasn't a 'virus', as it required the user to actively install it .. And it was removed from the site within 24 hours.

    Is there a link to where i can find a report on this virus? worst case scenario i let the virus into ubuntu by giving it sudo access-what happens with a linux 'virus'?


  • #35
    Mathiasb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 425 ✭✭Mathiasb


    mehmeh12 wrote: »
    Is there a link to where i can find a report on this virus? worst case scenario i let the virus into ubuntu by giving it sudo access-what happens with a linux 'virus'?

    What virus?

    The malware has been taken down from the site. You can't give something sudo access - you are the user, you have sudo access. If you run something via sudo, that process being run is run with root credentials = bad (if not intended).

    You can't get automatically infected.


  • #36
    mehmeh12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 921 ✭✭✭mehmeh12


    Mathiasb wrote: »
    What virus?

    The malware has been taken down from the site. You can't give something sudo access - you are the user, you have sudo access. If you run something via sudo, that process being run is run with root credentials = bad (if not intended).

    You can't get automatically infected.

    What are the symptoms of the a linux infection?


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  • #37
    Blowfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    mehmeh12 wrote: »
    What are the symptoms of the a linux infection?
    There are no defined symptoms, because it's almost unheard of.


  • #38
    BopNiblets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    I imagine that even if you run a Windows virus under Wine the most harm it could do is limited to your Wine directory?
    Viruses do what? Delete Windows files? There can't be too many (or any) common files because of the different filesystem/directory structure! So your Wine might get borked, or I suppose if you had a Windows partition mounted it might do some damage?


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