Wine being targeted for adware

[Ben Klein]

2009/1/14 Ben Klein <shacklein at gmail.com>:
> 2009/1/14 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>> 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:
>>
>>
>> The amazing thing about that interview was how jaw-droppingly insecure
>> Windows actually is, inherently and incurably.
>>
>> I hope Wine doesn't emulate some of those wackie characteristics too well.
>
> Technically, it has to for legitimate apps to work. I'm sure there's
> some malware that doesn't work in Wine, but there's probably a large
> subset of that will work some day.
>

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