Adding binfmt configuration to official Wine packages

[Rosanne DiMesio]

On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 12:52:06 -0300
Bruno Jesus <00cpxxx at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi, I don't understand the security implications yet. If I download a
> malware and run it like ./malware.exe or wine malware.exe what is the
> difference? Also in a file manager double clicking exe run wine
> correctly, why isn't this a security problem? What is a real example
> of a malware that benefits from this?
> 

I was mostly thinking of malware that gets secretly downloaded by visiting a contaminated web page and then executes without the user ever seeing it. I also recall a few years ago getting malware from the school network on one of my flash drives. It installed an .exe file that was hidden in Windows, but which executed itself whenever I plugged the drive into a Windows computer. It couldn't do that on my Linux computer. 

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