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post Oct 25 2009, 11:42 AM
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It does take some efforts (mainly caused by human stupidity), but the thread is there, especially if you have Wine installed

A detailed explanation is available at:

http://blog.opensourcenerd.com/i-can-haz-virus
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post Oct 25 2009, 01:04 PM
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well, it seems to only affect the wine subsystem. so it's not actually a linux virus. plus, it requires a high level of stupidity to get infected(like most other linux virus).

i do respect who designed it though. nice bait.
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post Oct 25 2009, 08:24 PM
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I'm not kinda understand a lil bit about have WIN viruses in Wine.
Hope somebody can tell me the simple and easy understanding way.
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does wine need root to execute? and if not, then i think, no harm at all. the virus just manipulate wine registery (not sure bout this.)

but the virus keep give a reminder to user. thus, the writer (who wrote the blog) kill the process, and restore to original wine reg.

correct me if im wrong
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