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

[Floris Kraak]

On 10/24/06, dan at ecorry.com <dan at ecorry.com> wrote:
> Quoting Floris Kraak <randakar at gmail.com> and James Allen <jfallen at gmail.com>:
>
> > > 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?
> > >
> >
> > Somebody actually tested that. Would have to search for the article
> > (it was on linuxworld or something) but somebody actually tried
> > running a self-proclaimed 'cross platform' email virus under wine, to
> > see how far it would get.
> >
> > The answer: Not very.
> >
>
> I think I read that article, and here might be a URL:
>
> http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/25/1430222&from=rss
>
> I was researching Linux viruses, and what I found was absolutely fantastic! I
> spent uncounted hours at my old job fighting browser hijackers and crapola the
> Boss would routinely get, and by contrast, Linux is virtually (pun intended!)
> virus free! I love it!
>

Yep, that's the one :-)

Regards,
Floris
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