Re: [Full-Disclosure] will this virus(W32.novarg.a) infect peopleusing wine in linux?

["Jeremiah Cornelius" <jeremiah@nur.net>]

Well,

wine DOESN'T run or load a system with daemon listeners.
wine doesn't magically run executable files without the executable bit set


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Remko Lodder" <remko@elvandar.org>
To: "Nico Golde" <nion@gmx.net>; "full disclosure" 
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Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 2:34 PM
Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] will this virus(W32.novarg.a) infect peopleusing 
wine in linux?


> you sure that an wine emulated windows+outlook cannot be infected?
> 
> since it emulates windows and 'offers' almost the same functionality
> as normal windows..
> 
> cheers
> 
> p.s i might be wrong, i dont know wine that good
> 
> 
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> 
> Remko Lodder
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> [mailto:full-disclosure-bounces@lists.elvandar.org]Namens Nico Golde
> Verzonden: dinsdag 27 januari 2004 21:29
> Aan: full disclosure
> Onderwerp: Re: [Full-Disclosure] will this virus(W32.novarg.a) infect
> peopleusing wine in linux?
> 
> 
> Hallo Akash,
> 
> * Akash Mahajan <akashm@myrealbox.com> [2004-01-27 21:07]:
>> If someone executes an infected pif/scr file using wine in linux, will
>> the pc get infected?
> 
> no
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