Can I run Windows viruses in Linux?

| January 27, 2005 | 1 comment

It’s almost possible, but the results in this article on running Windows viruses with Wine are disappointing. There are problems but things are improving so Linux users can enjoy all the benefits of Windows!

It just isn’t fair that Windows users get all the viruses. I mean really, shouldn’t Linux users be in on the fun as well? Well… thanks to the folks running the Wine project, Linux users can “catch the virus bug” too — sort of.

Can I run Windows viruses in Linux? was posted on January 27, 2005 at 11:46 am in Humour, Linux and tagged as , , , , , . It was last modified on January 27, 2005 at 11:46 am. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response or pingback from your site.

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hans peter bierbaumer on January 17, 2008 at 12:49 am.

i tried this once, but ended up with a windows in a vmware window to get them runnung

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