[gl-como] [Fwd: Re: wine virus story]

[Pietro "m0nt0" Montorfano]

Scusate, inoltro questo dalla mailing list di wine-dev perchè è 
veramente ma veramente spettacolare :D

Pietro

Quoting Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>:

> http://wearenixed.blogspot.com/2008/03/you-only-know-good-when-youve-seen-bad.html
>
> "I had set her up with a perfect Wine install. She had a bit
> of software that needed to run under wine and I had shown her
> how to install within that environment. Apparently, I wasn't
> specific enough. It never occurred to Paula that the .exe
> programs she had used on her XP machine were the vehicles for
> many of her present viruses. To her, it was perfectly fine to
> use those same .exe's...after all, she was in Linux, right?
>
> I got there within the same hour and checked her
> machine. Yep...Windows viruses will reside and create the same
> havoc within a Wine environment. Now, I've seen it with my own
> eyes. This time I reinstalled for her and made sure I found
> all the infected .exe's on the Windows side and deleted them."

Windows virus infecting Linux machines are a huge success for Wine.

Take that one Microsoft! Windows viruses run better on Linux than on  
Windows Vista!

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)