Wine being targeted for adware

[Austin English]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:38 AM, James Mckenzie
<jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Jeff Zaroyko <jeffzaroyko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>In an interesting interview, former adware author Matt Knox mentions
>>that he was able to run his adware client on Wine:
>>
>>S: In your professional opinion, how can people avoid adware?
>>M: Um, run UNIX.
>>
>>S: [ laughs]
>>M: We did actually get the ad client working under Wine on Linux.
>>
>>S: That seems like a bit of a stretch!
>>M: That was a pretty limited market, I'd say.
>>
> One:  This shows how well we run Windows programs.
> Two:  The last comment should show how much respect we have in the community.  Things have changed since the release of Wine 1.0, but we have a long way to go to be on every Linux desktop and most of the MacIntosh community.
>
> However, we should attempt to block adware as a matter of policy?  That is up to the Wine User Community and not based on the opinions of one or two people.  I for one would like to see if this is possible and feasible.  I do know that some of the virus testing community are using Wine as a Virtual Machine to see how much damage can be done by viruses in that environment.
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> James McKenzie
>
>
>

That really depends on your definition of Adware. What is adware to
some, is vitally important software to others.

Besides, last I checked, Wine let's you "run Windows programs on Unix
like OS's", not "run only safe and approved applications on Unix like
OS's".



-- 
-Austin