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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Makes perfect sense to me...

[Ungrounded Lightning]

My original point (which has been moderated into oblivion, as I assume this will be too) is that it doesn't make ANY rational sense to be trying to get a MALICIOUS program running on your system.

It makes perfect sense to me, with a couple of changes of emphasis.

It makes sense, when writing an emulator/compatability layer, to TEST whether a malicious program will run, for two reasons:

Discovering whether the emulation is close enough that the emulator is also vulnerable to the malicious software.

Discovering whether the malicious software fails because it depends on a feature - necessary for some NON-malicious programs - which is not correctly emulated. (A malicious program may use a little-known or undocumented "feature" - perhaps one that's been keeping some popular apps from working correctly.)

But beyond debugging the emulation there are additional reasons:

Running the malicious program in the (open-source) emulation environment may provide additional insight into its operation, leading to better defenses, both for the emulation and the original environment.

It's FUNNY!

That's four separate reasons that this makes sense.