[cw-discuss] MS Outlook & Viruses

[Andrew Douglas Pitonyak]

The closer Crossover is to "real" windows, the more likely you will have 
a problem with a virus.

IE is a magnet for problems.

There are certain problems with things embedded in MS Office products.

Some of the low-level tricky things that they do just do not work in 
Cross-Over; yet, so you are safer.

A relative started with her favorite news site, CNN. She then followed a 
few "I hate Bush" links and before I new it, some Java thing was dumping 
unmentionables as my screen saver. The lesson here is not that an "I 
love Bush" link probably would not have infected my computer (it 
probably would not have), but rather, YOU ARE NEVER SAFE!

As a side note, the best I can figure, the infection appeared to link 
back to organized crime in Russia.

Adam Bray wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
>
> 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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