[Wine] Crazy (and just maybe awesome) idea: Winux

[David Gerard]

On 10 March 2010 09:10, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mmmmmm ... speaking as a Unix sysadmin: if a work Unix box got
> rootkitted, I would in fact just blow it away and carefully restore
> data from backups. It's not like reinstallation is that hard or takes
> that long, and I'd feel much more reassured of my system's clean state
> than I would trying to clean a known dirty one. Your mileage may vary.


I must note! If you are a desktop user running Wine, YOU DO NOT NEED
TO WORRY ABOUT THIS SORT OF THING REALLY. Do not go "aieee virus!" and
delete your system!!

If you get a Windows virus in your .wine, you can at this stage just
delete the .wine directory and start over.

(I don't know of any Windows malware that is aware of Wine, but it
would be trivially easy to write and there's nothing Wine can do to
block it. So you really should run ClamAV as well if you're in the
habit of downloading and installing random things in Wine. Has anyone
written a good page on practical use of an antivirus with Wine?)


- d.