On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:06 AM, wacossusca34 <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Like the title says, I have a very nasty virus on wine. I swear I've also encountered this same one (A few months ago) on a seperate vista machine. I Have a virus that does not seem to be doing anything, and stopped working after an 'X' reboot. However, It did try to execute a modified version of winlogo.exe (Windows logon executable), but we all know you can't log onto a Linux system with Wine. > > So ever since it went doormat, The ONLY issue i've been having is with BitTorrent (And that is not much of an issue since I now use a different torrent manager), it just lags a lot, and takes forever to process a single click into the application. > > I can run much more complicated applications on wine, such as Spore, a windows game including GLSL rendering, and I'm surprised a game like this runs under a virus without an issue. (It's awesome! :D) > > I'm just asking if I should be worried about this. I also want to remove anyways, and is there a way I can protect my wine from malicious software before things like this happen? > > Thanks. 1. Delete your wine prefix 2. Do not run anything under wine using root, su or sudo 3. Install clamav in linux - this will protect against windows viruses but not malware. 4. Use a linux native bittorrent client. There are many good ones. John M. Drescher
