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Originally Posted by smurphy
Oh - I did ... I did actually that to test security software while I was working for a Security company  |
That hardly applies as "average nerd"
I am well aware that it is possible to write viruses for Linux - though I doubt that any "professional virus-author" needs the source code to do this
- I just doubt the point "easy" (see, among others, the point regarding root vs user access)
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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 
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I admit, I have never seen an attack like this *in practise* and I guess that it will have to be a finely crafted one (not your average Windows attacck
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