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This is old news. WINE reached the "bug-for-bug emulation" milestone of supporting Microsoft malware in 2004.

It's not up to the WINE team to revise the definition of "Microsoft compatible," only to achieve it.
Posted by: Yagotta B. Kidding   Posted on: 01/05/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Accuracy  Yagotta B. Kidding | 01/05/06
So this isn't a WINE problem?  george_ou | 01/05/06
Define "problem."  Yagotta B. Kidding | 01/05/06
Problem? No not really  uno@... | 01/05/06
Better than surf with ie under WINE  psychoslave | 01/07/06
Not very common  uno@... | 01/09/06
You need to read beffore commenting  stephen0838_z | 01/09/06
Oh Noooooooooooooooooo!  D. T. Schmitz | 01/05/06
The Microsoft Patch Requires Reboots  PMC-CON | 01/05/06
Reboots for Win2K AND XP Pro for me  ericha8 | 01/05/06
Windows 2003 server needs to reboot also  gtdavies33@... | 01/05/06
Ok, I'll correct  george_ou | 01/05/06
Could you correct it?  quantumstate | 01/06/06
Fortunately I don't use wine  Michael Kelly | 01/05/06
I don't  D. T. Schmitz | 01/05/06
I don't do Linux wine  palmwarrior | 01/05/06
No Wine Here  Edward Meyers | 01/06/06
I don't use wine  tracy anne | 01/06/06
Don't  D. T. Schmitz | 01/07/06
No wine  xyz10_z | 01/07/06
I do!  doh123 | 01/09/06
I do...  Twey | 01/09/06
I do  maldain | 01/09/06
Skeptical  Yen_z | 01/05/06
Exploit info please!  Still Lynn | 01/06/06
Doh!  Still Lynn | 01/06/06
OK  tombalablomba | 01/06/06
Please explain...  Anti_Zealot | 01/06/06
Please note...  zkiwi | 01/07/06
English Please!  TheBoyBailey | 01/06/06
Whine  Roger Ramjet | 01/06/06
Sun Tzu  horusfalcon | 01/06/06
You're right!  Roger Ramjet | 01/06/06
One exception...  techboy_z | 01/06/06
You still need a copy of Windoze  Roger Ramjet | 01/06/06
Nope  Yagotta B. Kidding | 01/06/06
Whine  Gregory.J.Bradley@... | 01/09/06
not really, you used to  doh123 | 01/09/06
VMware cannot do what i do with Cadega  doh123 | 01/09/06
clamav, the premier linux AV, is in the 100% detection list for WMF exploit  ~doolittle~ | 01/06/06
Exposed how...???  Someguy2 | 01/06/06
George Ou & ZDNet desperation  zdnet_reader | 01/06/06
Holy Socks!!!  Cayble | 01/09/06
wine code already fixed  ~doolittle~ | 01/06/06
Beautious  D. T. Schmitz | 01/07/06
Mr. Ou, could you please update for this information, please?  Anti_Zealot | 01/08/06
I'm checking with Mr. Moore  george_ou | 01/08/06
Thank you  Anti_Zealot | 01/08/06
just check out the cvs code...  ~doolittle~ | 01/08/06
and on with building the latest code from the cvs source  ~doolittle~ | 01/08/06
fixed in cross over also  timeofmind | 01/10/06
Linux more vulnerable than Windows  gafisher@... | 01/09/06
Reaching! Anything to get the eyes of MS!  graphx | 01/09/06
sadly, little know that many distros have it installed on default  doh123 | 01/09/06
not on RedHat, Fedora, Centos, Ubuntu or Debian  ~doolittle~ | 01/09/06
Does it run by default?  Still Lynn | 01/09/06
No, never  bladehawke | 01/09/06
not accurate  Scott W | 01/12/06
Who cares.  John Zern | 01/09/06
Firefox  Marcus Lycus | 01/09/06
George, req another update - Cedega is not affected by this exploit  ~doolittle~ | 01/09/06
seriously, wine?  jefmud | 01/09/06
Proof of Linux vulnerability  golowenow | 01/09/06
Proof of Linux security  ~doolittle~ | 01/09/06
Proof of user vulnerability  gafisher@... | 01/09/06
It's a WINDOWS vulnerability!!!  mdsmedia | 01/09/06
swish  Scott W | 01/12/06
Mike?  Scott W | 01/12/06
rofl  Network Support | 01/09/06
Too stupid for words  shis-ka-bob | 01/09/06
WINE and LINUX  Marcus Lycus | 01/09/06
WMF exploit through WINE  Tombo_z | 01/09/06
was patched in less than a day.  ~doolittle~ | 01/09/06
And yet....  Anti_Zealot | 01/10/06
Hey George guess what???  tombalablomba | 01/09/06
LIKE SAYING SONY'S ROOTKIT IS A WINDOWS PROBLEM  daver_z | 01/10/06
yay!  linuxoverwindows | 01/10/06
Emulation must be flattery surely?  GetReal-mac.com | 01/10/06
on that day...  Scott W | 01/12/06
I thought the Secunia/Red Hat article was moronic  IAHawkeye | 01/13/06
More to it than that  mobrien_12@... | 01/15/06
Absolutely! Well said  IAHawkeye | 01/18/06

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