Running malware in Wine

[r4v3n]

There's an interesting article about running windows malware in ubuntu linux using wine.


http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2009/02/23/running-windows-malware-in-linux/

[lisati]

I've seen discussions about running malware through Wine here on the forums. It's an experiment I'm not keen to try myself: depending on what permissions Wine has been given, there are a handful of occasions that the malware might try to do mischief via the Ubuntu filesystem.

[rocknrolf77]

rmdir ./wine

Can't see a problem here ;)

[bodhi.zazen]

Thank you for the link.

IMO ~/.wine should NOT link anywhere outside of itself (I do not like the links to / or $HOME ). If you do not link outside of your wine directory malware should be contained.

Also this should not affect anything outside of .wine or your home directory unless you are running wine as root.

DO NOT RUN WINE AS ROOT

So to be clear, there is a HUGE difference between infecting ~/.wine and Linux (Ubuntu) system files.

If you run wine consider "confining" it with apparmor.

Edit: Also please keep comments on topic (no FUD), otherwise it may be closed.

[bodhi.zazen]

On further thought I closed the thread as the OP has no other posts in the community.

If you have any questions about how to secure wine, please start new thread.