In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.1020611025257.12378A-100000gaia.nimnet.asn.au
>, Ian
Smith writes:
> Hi Cy,
>
> offlist, as I may be misreading the Symantec advisory drastically ..
>
> > This should probably concern anyone using Linux emulation under
> > FreeBSD. I suspect that it may also attempt to infect FreeBSD
> > binaries, rendering them useless.
> >
> > http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/linux.simile.html
> >
> > Be careful what you run.
>
> Always :) But are you sure this concerns anyone not running _Windows_
> programs (or these PE programs?) under Linux (emulation or otherwise),
> like Wine and such?

I suppose I should have stated the obvious. Yes indeed it concerns
anyone using Wine. If you don't use Wine or Linux emulation, you're
safe.

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