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What if I run a virus/trojan Windows EXE on Ubuntu with
Wine?
ve got a file said to contain information I was looking for.
Unfortunately i t is an executable instead of DOC (as it was meant
to be) and thete I 've download it from looks suspicious for me. If
I was not using Linux, I'd run it on a VM or a separate PC. But
running Linux, do I need to
orry, or can I just run it with Wine? Can Wine system be
infected?
security windows wine viruses
sked Oct 1 '10 at 20:16Oct 1 '10 at 20:16
Ivan
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–
This is almost a complete duplicate of this question of the Unix
and Linux stackexchange site. Some good answers
there. unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1729/… frabjous Oct 1
'10 at 21:12
–See also: Risks/Disadvantages associated with Wine Lekensteyn
Aug 18 '11 at 21:07
4 Answers
he news is only slightly better than it is on Windows. If you
run the executable, it can do anything
n executable can, up to and including getting whatever data is
in your home folder.
he good news is that most Windows viruses aren't (yet) written
in a way to work well on Wine. In
ome cases you can delete the wine folder and be otherwise
unaffected.
he bad news is that a wine executable is an executable in the
full Linux sense -- there's nothing
opping it from doing anything a malicious shell script might,
including escaping the .wine folder.
ine has a wiki page on securing Wine here: -- partial
easures you can take include things like scanning a file with
ClamAV before running it.
http://wiki.winehq.org/SecuringWine
edited Mar 5 '12 at 5:22Mar 5 '12 at 5:22 answered Oct 2 '10 at
12:59Oct 2 '10 at 12:59
Scott Ritchie
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here was an . Short version: Almost all Windows viruses
aren't
ritten to run well on Wine. Maybe Wine has gotten better, but
it's not the sort of compatibility
at Wine i s looking to offer.
ancient article about this 5 years ago
here are a couple viruses that infect both Windows & Linux
but they're very very rare and didn't
pread all that well.
edited Mar 2 '12 at 18:27Mar 2 '12 at 18:27 answered Oct 1 '10
at 21:10Oct 1 '10 at 21:10
Broam
89 9899 4 13
mple way to "secure" wine is in winecfg tell all the desktop
integration folders to point to your
wine folder and remove drives other than the drive_c inside the
.wine folder.
nswered May 14 '11 at 10:53May 14 '11 at 10:53
bob
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