[ale] Scare tactics

[James P. Kinney III]

Excellent!! Maybe someday Linux users will catch up with their windows
brethren and...

Ah, crap. Who am I fooling. :)

There was a blurb several years ago, and I haven't researched out the
link yet, that a wine user did manage to infect his setup with a windows
virus. But I don't recall if they went into enough detail to ascertain
if it did more than install itself and die.

On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 13:37 -0400, Richard Kolkovich wrote:
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> On 09/26/06 16:48, James P. Kinney III disclosed::
> > On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 16:37 -0400, Billy049 wrote:
> >> Recently I have noticed news items saying the internet bad guys are now 
> >> targeting home users who need a security suite to protect them.  It 
> >> seems firewall programs no longer support some of the older Windowses.  
> >> Upgrade this, buy that, argh.  Oh yeah, and they're saying Firefox has 
> >> lately had more vulnerabilities that the other guys products.
> >>
> >> Ok, so they have my attention now and they are scaring me towards using 
> >> Linux for my online work.  I hope some can reassure me that this move 
> >> will greatly increase my home computer's security.
> > 
> > The best part is that NONE of those virus/spyware problems that plague
> > windows machines will even run on Linux unless wine is loaded up.
> 
> WINE does not run viruses very well at all:
> 
> http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/25/1430222&from=rss
> 
> 
> ;)
> 
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
> >> I have one of those used/cheap external modems on the way.
> 
> 
> - --
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> Richard Kolkovich
> sarumont at sigil.org
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