Especially if your on a business side of things. How rare the virus may be, its still advised to secure Wine as much as possible. Although the chance for you specifically to catch this rare virus is pretty slim, I would still urge you to read an article by the Wine community on how to Secure wine (Links to empty page). If the virus is targeting Linux with Wine environment. In which case, you have a Windows binary somewhere, that possibly can cause harm to your system. Mind you that if it did not copy it self somewhere else then the ~/.wine folder. ![]() Removing the ~/.wine folder completely, however, will give some sense of safety. Reinstalling wine later, will show that the applications are still installed. ![]() If you remove wine - to the best of my knowledge - it just removes its binaries. ![]() The Virus is still installed, but its not doing any harm. If It's a Windows virus, kill the Windows Environment(wine), and it won't have a leg to stand on. ( Viruses through wine has already happened.)Ĭould I stop a virus from doing it's thing by just quitting Wine? Yes, if it is a trojan, rootkit, worm program specifically designed to infect Windows machine. Do Wine Viruses only work while Wine is running?
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