[cw-discuss] MS Outlook & Viruses

[Adam Bray]

FYI,

After hitting send, I received this response from tech support:

There is the slight possiblity that you could get a windows virus although
to date we have not actually found a virus that functions properly under
Wine and CrossOver due to asumptions the virus writters make about lowlevel
features of the underlying operating system. As Wine progresses in the
future this may be more of a risk and we have added support for using ClamAV
with CrossOver. If you install the ClamAV scanner CrossOver should by
default, scan everytime a file is opened.

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This makes things a little better.

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at crossover.codeweavers.com
[mailto:discuss-bounces at crossover.codeweavers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Adams
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 4:57 PM
To: discuss at crossover.codeweavers.com
Subject: Re: [cw-discuss] MS Outlook & Viruses

What about macro viruses for word or excel? I would assume that they
would run, as would any other VBA macro.

On 9/27/07, Jeremy White <jwhite at codeweavers.com> wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> Here's a boiler plate response we use on viruses:
>
> People often wonder if CrossOver is subject to as many problems with
viruses and
> trojans as Windows is.
>
> The short answer is that, in theory, a virus could affect a system running
a
> Windows program, but that it would require a pretty extremely unlikely
scenario
> and it has not, to our knowledge, ever happened.
>
> The longer answer is that programs that are vulnerable to virii, such as
Outlook
> and Internet Explorer will retain those vulnerabilities when run on the
via
> CrossOver.

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