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Originally Posted by tirsales
 You have never tried, have you?
There are root-exploits, and finding them is the hard part about writing viruses 
And thats just one of the reasons why a Desktop firewall is NOT secure.
And even then - I've yet to see a root exploit from within Wine
I guess you are not talking about a desktop firewall - but about a real firewall (or, at least, an IP filter)
And I never objected to those |
Oh - I did ... I did actually that to test security software while I was working for a Security company
and I used wine to actually avoid rebooting into windows. And what you can do with Wine - is amazing
if you know the right hooks. Wine is actualy just used to generate a buffer-overflow which then drops the exploit code into a root-owned shell to install software...
I admit - it took me a while to figure this out
And you are right - I am talking about the Full State Inspection "Packet filters" usually sold as Firewalls by ISP's