[Wine] Program looking for dll's

[James McKenzie]

  On 9/20/10 5:01 PM, jordan wrote:
> Hi
>
>> I installed wine on ubuntu 10.04.  I then installed Emsisoft Anti-Malware.  When I go to run it I gat the following  error.
>>
>> david at david-ubuntu:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Emsisoft Anti-Malware$ wine a2cmd.exe
>> fixme:reg:GetNativeSystemInfo (0x33fc6c) using GetSystemInfo()
>> fixme:service:QueryServiceObjectSecurity 0x13b768 4 0x1e2e8ec 0 0x1e2e8d8 - semi-stub
>> fixme:service:QueryServiceObjectSecurity 0x13b768 4 0x13b7d8 28 0x1e2e8d8 - semi-stub
>> fixme:reg:GetNativeSystemInfo (0x32f914) using GetSystemInfo()
>>
>> Emsisoft Commandline Scanner v.
>> (C) 2003-2010 Emsi Software GmbH - www.emsisoft.com
>> Program error: The required file engine.dll can not be found.
>> Please go to www.emsisoft.com and download the latest software package.
>>
>> Program error: The required file a2update.dll can not be found.
>> Please go to www.emsisoft.com and download the latest software package.
>>
>> These dll's are in the program directory. I also placed them in the system32 directory with no luck.  I read somewhere where this program runs in wine perfectly.  Any help would be appreciated.
> You probably need to use winecfg, and set those 2 .dll as "builtin",
> then it should work(if it's going to work)..However, that being said,
> i did read a thread on that companies forum, about people not being
> able to get it to work properly, and problems with updates. While on
> person claimed it worked fine.
This should fix the problem.  However, a little research of the 
Applications Database would be in order as well.  If this does work, the 
Applications Database entry needs to be updated.
> A question for you: why do you need Anti-malware. I have never had
> problems with Wine/malware.  I could only see this being a problem if
> you are using internet explorer, instead of a Linux web-browser. or if
> you are a mega software pirate, who doesn't pay attention when
> downloading suspicious content.... it seems like overkill to me....
>
Because malware will work with Wine in most cases as if it were 
Windows.  Also, it always pays to be protective.

James McKenzie