Wine becoming compatible with Windows up to a level viruses can run is certainly a feature - by implication that Wine is running well. Wine is not designed to distinguish what kind of program it runs, but to run it as the program intends. However I think this problem of viruses running should be addressed. Even if it isn't damaged by them, Ubuntu shouldn't carry and transmit viruses. And the potential is always there for a Wine-run virus to attack things in the user's home folder, thus becoming a Linux virus. Whether that second option is more likely than a native or cross-platform virus I don't really know, but I can imagine it being so. Certainly the first at least has happened, and should be addressed.
I don't know how to do it, but checking files with ClamAV (the back end to the aforementioned clamtk) before opening them in Wine sounds like a very good idea. It won't slow down native operations and programs, as an antivirus program on Windows does, but it will protect against Windows viruses running under Wine. -- ubuntu helps spreading windows viruses https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256880 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
