[Wine] do I have to worry if executing an exe that may contain a virus under Wine? paranoia???

[Liam Kurmos]

I was thinking about this the other day, i decided the only really
security danger would be if the sender knew i was running wine....

not very likely I think. but i got this mail to this address with just
the attachment info.exe. it's a public address, so nothing unusual. i
get them from time to time, lately from china. But this one was from the
mail address quantum_leap at liberto.it

I sent one back and didnt get a miss delivery. liberto seems to be an
italian portal.

the address was so similar to mine to made me stop. Did the virus manage
to run a dictonary, find a connection to my mail and then mail me? i
doubt it. could I easily decompile it and look at its system calls?

a coinsidence ??

I hex edited it. nothing I recognised.
I may play more with this on later.





peter kostov wrote:

>Hi, I have a question:
>do I have to worry if I run with wine an executable that may contain a
>virus (I am running linux as  a normal user, not root)?
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