Wine being targeted for adware

Ben Klein shacklein at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 02:21:07 CST 2009


2009/1/14 Jeff Zaroyko <jeffzaroyko at gmail.com>:
> http://philosecurity.org/2009/01/12/interview-with-an-adware-author
>
> 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.

"Some adware can work under Wine on Linux" does NOT mean that Wine is
being targeted in any way.

Note that viruses also work in Wine. Not much you can do about it,
since they are valid Win32 applications ...



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