SirCam on Linux via WINE

illusion_2K writes "Another monumental step forward for Linux - the SirCam virus now works on Linux via WINE. ("With a few ommissions")" Allright I had to post it. Thats damn funny. We can emulate worms if we want to!

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Re:Why is this important?

[1010011010]

Seriously... whats up with this?

Humor. H-U-M-O-R.

"Haha, Linux has to run Windows viruses under emulation, otherwise it wouldn't have any."

Not Quite

[Jerry]

While I noticed that SirCam infected email did fire my Wine program the results were a dud. The effect was that SirCam was exposed but not functional, and I was able to explore it's code without fear. There were no registries to infect, no exchange list to exploit, and the "hidden" trojans were easily seen and removed.

SirCam it totally harmless on Linux under Wine.

Done that..

[sakusha]

This has been a known problem for years amongst Mac emulator users. Virtual PC and other emus are suceptible to viruses just like on a native PC. I just run standard PC antivirus tools.

One of the advantages of using Mac PC emulation, I can just make a backup copy of my PC volume, save that state, if I have a Windows problem I just ditch the corrupted volume and use the backup.

Another historic milestone

[dsplat]

I can't believe that no one has posted a reference to the Jargon File entry for the bug-compatibility standard that WINE has now met:

bug-compatible adj.

[common] Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossil s or misfeature s in other programs or (esp.) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."