WINE and Viruses

[Grez]

I was thinking of trying Wine out with some old windows software that now won't work with Vista. However, I was told that it would make my system more open to attacks from Viruses and Malware.

I'm on an "always on" broadband connection, but I would have thought that if I wasn't trying to use Wine for stuff like a web browser or e-mail client, I'd be OK.

Can anyone help please?

[OutOfReach]

A lot of viruses do not work in WINE, but some do, but without drastic effect (some will only reduce performance) but you can kill wine and that will solve that.

[anotherdisciple]

Check this thread out... it's kinda funny... and talks about running virii in WINE

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=72598

[Tatty]

If windows malware does manage to run in your wine installation, it will only affect anything you have installed in wine. Your Ubuntu installation will be fine.

[Zzl1xndd]

This gives some insight on what effects Viruses can have in WINE, and its a little funny too.

http://www.linux.com/articles/42031