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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: DC on 24 October 2002, 03:17

Title: Wine and Klez
Post by: DC on 24 October 2002, 03:17

Apparently Klez affects us Unix users as well (more than just spamming us).

http://cybereal.darktech.org/~cybereal/winevirus.html (http://cybereal.darktech.org/~cybereal/winevirus.html)
(This is a mirror - the original seems to be slashdotted).

As the article states, the danger isn't too huge, but it can be a real nuisance if you're uncareful on a misconfigured system.

Title: Wine and Klez
Post by: voidmain on 24 October 2002, 04:05

It still only runs in Windows code, even if you execute that code from Wine. Another reason not to run Wine and get away from all things Microsoft and all things Windows. I don't run wine and have no interest in ever doing so.