[Wine] I have a very nasty virus on wine...

[John Drescher]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:06 AM, wacossusca34
<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Like the title says, I have a very nasty virus on wine. I swear I've also encountered this same one (A few months ago) on a seperate vista machine. I Have a virus that does not seem to be doing anything, and stopped working after an 'X' reboot. However, It did try to execute a modified version of winlogo.exe (Windows logon executable),  but we all know you can't log onto a Linux system with Wine.
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> So ever since it went doormat, The ONLY issue i've been having is with BitTorrent (And that is not much of an issue since I now use a different torrent manager), it just lags a lot, and takes forever to process a single click into the application.
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> I can run much more complicated applications on wine, such as Spore, a windows game including GLSL rendering, and I'm surprised a game like this runs under a virus without an issue. (It's awesome! :D)
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> I'm just asking if I should be worried about this. I also want to remove anyways, and is there a way I can protect my wine from malicious software before things like this happen?
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> Thanks.

1. Delete your wine prefix
2. Do not run anything under wine using root, su or sudo
3. Install clamav in linux - this will protect against windows viruses
but not malware.
4. Use a linux native bittorrent client. There are many good ones.


John M. Drescher