full-disclosure - will this virus(W32.novarg.a) infect people using wine in linux?

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Message-ID: <20040127165658.GC21251@sherohman.org>
From: esper at sherohman.org (Dave Sherohman)
Subject: will this virus(W32.novarg.a) infect people using wine in linux?

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:33:10PM +0530, Akash Mahajan wrote:
> If someone executes an infected pif/scr file using wine in linux, will
> the pc get infected?

I would expect the wine subsystem to be infectable (provided that the
malware in question is wine-compatible - not all win32 software runs
on wine, after all), but it should not be able to affect anything
outside of wine other than by going out and corrupting files or
deleting them outright.  (Even then, it would be limited to files
that are writable by the user wine is running as.)

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