[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it really necessary to require running a virus scanner from > inside of Wine?
No. Hey, cool, we agree on something! > > and everybody knows that one should do that if one > > cares about viruses. > > Same sentence applies to Wine I'd assume. No, because everybody assumes Linux is impervious to viruses. (You say you dealt with this comment, but I must have missed it.) > > So Wine really is different; you can't run commercial virus > > scanners in it, > > It's still possible to run a native virus scanner outside of Wine. Yes. And we need to encourage this, and perhaps hook into it. > Nobody denies that there is a problem, the thing is that personally > I don't see why that problem is Wine specific. Wine increases Linux's attack surface area hugely *and* attracts new users to Linux who are used to computers coming with bundled virus scanners. - Dan
