[lug] Emulation vulnerabilities?

Samartha Deva blug-receive at mtbwr.net
Thu Sep 27 08:13:07 MDT 2001


>So I have an entirely naive question to ask:
>
>Does the fact that Wine emulates windows, and will allow users to run
>MSOffice within the Linux environment, make the machine vulnerable to the
>various Outlook email viruses out there?

....

>Anyone have any idea about this?
>
>--Keith

with SirCam
they do:

http://appdb.codeweavers.com/appview.php?appId=277

there is a thread in Slashdot:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/23/1614214&mode=flat

where one post (further down, score 4) says, it's a dud.


Samartha





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