[Bug 11421] New: Wine makes possible for windows virus to work?

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11421

           Summary: Wine makes possible for windows virus to work?
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: wineserver
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
        ReportedBy: tsalacinski at gmail.com


I know that it's too early to say this, but when Wine started to support Run
and RunOnce registry entries, I have few Windows worms on my computer (I've
been using ies4linux).

Is this possible, that when for example virus developer will think about
supporting Linux he will steal data? I think, yes.

As we know, wine have access to the whole drive (most users have / configured
as Z:\). If we have a virus installed in Run in the registry, and the virus
will look for every drive in the system (especially for Z:\) it can try to
detect if there is any Z:\home\[user] directory and it can steal data from it.

Virus devs can even try to compile their viruses with libwine to check if they
will work on Linux.


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