Nice to see its compatibility improving
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| Author | Content |
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| jhansonxi Mar 22, 2010 9:54 PM EDT |
This is the type of cross-platform capability that Linux needs in order to entice the third-party security software advertisement subsidies that help offset the price of Windows laptops. Really though - you can't fix stupid. |
| techiem2 Mar 22, 2010 9:57 PM EDT |
lol. "Norton Antivirus - Wine Edition! Keeps your bottles safe!" |
| tuxchick Mar 22, 2010 11:11 PM EDT |
Safe Surfing with prOnBuntu! |
| twickline Mar 23, 2010 1:50 AM EDT |
ClamAV Antivirus software running in Wine howto : http://www.burghardt.pl/2007/11/wine-with-on-access-clamav-s... Now go back to watching your porn. |
| jacog Mar 23, 2010 4:19 AM EDT |
Although, I think removing WINE from his puter was not the right solution - well, overkill anyway. I suspect that the way he got the infections in the first place was because he was running IE. I presume he was using IE because the sites he was surfing claimed to only work in IE. At least he learned a lesson. Well, one hopes. :) |
| tracyanne Mar 23, 2010 6:52 AM EDT |
no he was using Firefox. The site work quite well in Firefox. He was downloading the .exe, then running it, by double clicking on it. Super OS, like the rest of the Ubuntu clan, allows Windows applications to run from the double click, just like they do in Windows, when WINE is installed. He didn't actually have any viruses, just the precursor... the fake control centre that scams people into downloading a fake Anti Virus, which is actually a trojan, and I suspect it would have run quite well. |
| jacog Mar 23, 2010 7:27 AM EDT |
Silly sausage. I usually have my Desktop set up so I can run Windows exes from the double-click also. But then I don't run any old dodgy software, and certainly nothing gotten from dodgy web sites such as the subject of the post. ;) This is an interesting read though: http://media.codeweavers.com/pub/crossover/case_studies/Wine... |
| tracyanne Mar 23, 2010 8:19 AM EDT |
Removing WINE altogether,was, I think, the best solution. He is a happy clicker, and has probably download lots more of those windows exes (only now they won't run). Additionally the software the control panel encourages you to download isn't a virus, in that it exploits some weakness in Windows to install itself, it's a trojan, that does it's job, probably creating a back door for a bot net controller to access. In other words it's just a standard Windows program, that should run, if WINE is at all any good..... the weakness it exploits is the silly sausage behind the mouse. Unfortunately there is no technical solution to that, other than the one I used. |
| jacog Mar 23, 2010 8:22 AM EDT |
Me, I'm one for letting the child touch the hot stove plate. :) |
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