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Windows viruses on Linux

2005/02/10 filed under /linux

Poor MS Windows users suffer from a lot of virusses nowadays. But the non-MS Windows users only suffer from a lot of useless mails containing virusses.

NewsForge ran an article on trying to run these virusses on a Linux machine using Wine. The author tried 5 known virusses (Klez, MyDoom, Sobig, SCO Worm, and SomeFool) and looked at how GNU/Linux friendly they were.

Funny remarks, such as the following, make this an interesting read:

"While I have friends that collect viruses, I didn't need to bother them. I found plenty by looking through my staggering collection of bogofilter sorted mail."
"[...] it's clear that the Wine developers have a long way to go before Wine is truly Windows compatible."
Posted by: B10m | permanent link | comments (2)

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Brian wrote at 2005-02-10 15:49:

I read this some time ago. Funny as hell.

I do feel ever so left out of the virus deluge don't you? ;)

BTW, what do you think of bogofilter vs spamassassin? I never heard of bogofilter until I read this article.

B10m wrote at 2005-02-10 16:04:

I have no experience with bogofilter (heard of it before though). I mainly use RBLs and Sophos Antivirus through AMaViS. SpamAssassin is nice, but not working well enough for me... it's installed and filtering my mail, but I need to configure it better or something.

Oh, and I use nkvir to filter some Nigerian scam mails (of which I get many)

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