RE: Simulating viruses with wine (this is totally serious;-)
I wish I'd thought of that...
Gonna hafta try it and find out, on a standalone box. My first guess would be
that wine would dump, but until it's tried, we won't know.
Paul
BTW, I'm not sure he tried to distribute it; I'd be more inclined to think that
he's not very security conscious. (He IS using windows, after all).
:)
On 28-Jan-2000 Tassilo von Parseval wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> after someone has obviously tried to distribute the happy99.exe (nice
> try, by the way ;-), I just thought this might be the right time to ask
> something about wine. As a matter of fact I have two viruses stored as
> files ( I did not run them though ;-) and I am rather curious to see
> what they *would* do if I ran them. Is there perhaps a way of finding
> out when running them with wine ? I guess this cannot damage anything
> but perhaps I finally know what they were supposed to do.
> So if anyone has any idea, please drop a few lines.
>
> Tassilo
>
>
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E-Mail: Paul Kallstrom <paul@softracamerica.com>
Date: 27-Jan-2000
Time: 19:55:02
Debian Linux & XFMail
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