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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Now let's fix it

[GrouchoMarx]

Cool! Now for a real coup, alter WINE so that it doesn't have all these vulnerabilities. (Should be reasonably straight-forward, just put proper checks in to keep VB scripts from accessing certain parts of the system.) I can see the marketing now: "Runs all Windows programs, except the viruses!" "It's Windows, but safer." "Virii? We don't run no steenkin virii!"

Re:Not Quite

[rtaylor]

Sircam is completely harmless on Windows too -- until you let the users get involved who run the damn thing.

Re:[W]ine [I]s [N]ot an [E]mulator

[Cloud K]

True, true. But stop being so picky!

Which would you rather say...
"We can emulate Windows viruses if we want to"
or
"We can use a program that implements the Windows API on top of X and UNIX (although GNU is not UNIX, so we're implementing it under GNU/Linux really) to run a Windows based virus"

Personally I'm willing to sacrifice being 100% accurate and correct in a case like this :)

Emulating bugs

[os2fan]

One of the things about Win-OS/2 was that it was bug for bug compatible with Windows, even down to emulating the 3.11-3.10=0.00 bug in the calculator.

The sad thing about Windows bugs is that you don't need to go to the back door to do damage. There's enough to be seen to do it through the front door now.

Maybe SirCam did not work because when the damage was passed down to the underlying OS, Linux did not want to play ball: and isn't that WHY we run emulators.... :)