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Old 05-12-2009, 01:26 PM   #135
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Originally Posted by smurphy View Post
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
Am I the only one who sees the irony of using a Windows emulator program to write a virus in Linux?

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Speaking of that, is there a decent eBook reader for Ubuntu?
There is calibre, and for other flavor's of linux there's the kindle 1/2, Sony PRS-505, PRS-700, etc..)

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