Something Windows is better than Linux at
By Adam Gaffin, NetworkWorld.com, 01/27/05
Running Windows viruses with Wine demonstrates that there's nothing so stupid on Windows that somebody won't try to replicate in Linux; in this case, getting Windows viruses to execute under an emulator on a Linux box:
Amazingly, Klez ran, but Wine kept on spewing out errors about "ntdll." ... The SomeFool first-generation worm (Netsky.D according to some folks) actually installs its winlogon.exe file under Wine, and, as an added bonus, seems to get stuck in an endless loop, thus really having a negative performance impact on my Linux machine! I'll give this one 4/5 penguins for not only running and sort of doing what it was supposed to, but actually doing mildly bad things to Linux -- at least until I hit Control-C in the terminal from which I was running Wine to stop it dead. ... Out of the five Windows viruses I ran under Wine, not a single one was able to send email and propagate itself. ...
Via joat.
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Loved the approach to this info and the info itself-I wonder if a magazine add could be built around this.
Posted by: Gary Blevins on February 26, 2005 12:03 PM
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