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09-18-2006, 06:11 AM
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Registered: Aug 2006
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wine...will it make any problem
I have successfully installed wine to my EL4 server..And I am able to run .exe files..Will it make any problem to my system..Any Virus ??
After, installation system started to hang..some point of time.
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09-18-2006, 11:52 AM
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Bash Guru
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Osaka, Japan
Distribution: Arch + Xfce
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More likely there's a bug somewhere. Wine simulates Windows api calls, but it's not a complete analog of a Windows system. Most windows malware targets holes in the Windows kernel and subsystems that just don't exist in the same form under wine. While some malware might run, most of it won't, or will only affect the wine subsystem. The linux kernel and executables should be mostly immune.
Take the same cautions with wine that you would under Windows and you should be safe.
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09-22-2006, 02:48 AM
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I've never tried Wine but it's certain that if you run infected executables, they won't touch others unless you run them with the root account. If you want to be certain that executables and DLL's are virus-free, be sure they're legitimate and add them to a tripwire database.
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