[LBo] [Opinion] Critical Linux security API is still a kludge

[James Allen]

On 10/23/06, Sam Morgan <s.morgan at linuxbasics.org> wrote:
> Seems the AV folks are insisting the increased usage of VMWare and Wine to run
> Win pgms is going to, sooner or later, come back to haunt linux users.....
>
>  From the UK.theinquirer.net
>
> "The talk lately has centered about Vista's security APIs, but Linux certainly
> needs improvements in this area, because AV vendors still rely on an external
> kernel module to implement 'real time' file scanning..."
>
> http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=35263
>
>
> Comments anyone?
> --
> God Bless,
> Sam Morgan

I have to admit, this article should be in the humor section.  Who
would run wine to run AV software to scan Linux?  Is this a marketing
tactic by Symantec? Have they not heard of anti-virus software that
runs on Linux (not through wine) or is it that that software is free?

I wouldn't run a virus magnet program such as  MS Word on Linux
anyway. In fact, I don't have any reason to run wine at all.

Question though, what could a virus download from a windows program
through wine do anyway? I don't think it could infect other files
could it?

James