You can guard against the nastiest potentials there by never running WINE as root. However, the potential obviously exists, if someone wrote malware that targeted WINE specifically, or if WINE gives transparent access to certain hardware. So, it appears that there are reported cases of malware appearing inside of WINE, but none reporting that they are somehow affecting stuff outside of WINE. Linux user or in a virtual machine (the ZeroWine malware analyzer
A workaround is to copy/move/symlink downloaded installers toĪpplications that you suspect to be infected, run them as their own
#Wine emulator virus windows#
Windows applications that aren't reachable from a Wine drive (like C: It will not prevent Windows applicationsįrom reading your entire filesystem, and will prevent you from running Removing the default Wine Z: drive, which maps to the unix rootĭirectory, is a weak defense.No virus scanner is 100% effective, though. Using if you are worried about an infection see also Ubuntu's notes
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ClamAV is a free virus scanner you might consider Links to URLs you don't understand and trust.Īpplication (including Wine applications) as root ( see above).
Just because Wine runs on a non-Windows OS doesn't mean you're The last question in the WINE FAQ addresses the issue a bit, which I'll reproduce part of here: However, a virus that targets WINE specifically - i.e., one which can tell it is running in WINE on *nix - could presumably do things with the privileges of the WINE process. Since WINE isn't a real emulator (a good thing) and wasn't created from actual windows source, exploits based on real windows flaws/backdoors probably cannot work.
But, e.g., if there is a way to write to the boot sector of your hard drive in a transparent way from WINE (by "transparent way" I mean, whatever way it is a virus would do this via Windows), then that's a serious risk, because some of them do that. They'll just think they are, or not work. Would disabling Wine when not in use, also disable the virus until Wine starts up again 4. I would assume WRT normal windows viruses, there is no meaningful context for them to do their real work in. Would an anti-virus for Windows function the same way in Wine as it would in Windows, and protect me from Windows viruses 3. Apparently malware has been found to run inside of WINE, but what is the potenial for it to affect the host system?
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Full disclosure: I'm not a WINE user but found this question interesting so I did a bit of digging.
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