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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by bart9h on Wednesday October 22 2025, @12:10PM (6 children)

    by bart9h (767) on Wednesday October 22 2025, @12:10PM (#1421745)

    I truthfully voted "never", but should I change to "only when I want to manually check files"?

    Would it be relevant to scan with ClamAV an eventual closed source binary I download (mostly Windows games to be used with Wine)?

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday October 22 2025, @10:07PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday October 22 2025, @10:07PM (#1421844) Journal

    I have been running various flavors of Linux on our home computers for 20+ years, never had a virus checker, never regretted not running one.

    For work, we have the "clamscan" solution worked out for our Linux based products. Only thing clamscan ever found there were viruses in a Windows partition.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 23 2025, @04:13AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 23 2025, @04:13AM (#1421868)

    Think of it this way: you hope WINE provides enough compatibility to run the games you purposefully execute. But what is the result if it also provides enough compatibility to run the malware you accidentally execute?

    • (Score: 4, Interesting) by turgid on Thursday October 23 2025, @01:34PM (3 children)

      by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 23 2025, @01:34PM (#1421899) Journal

      Assuming the malware makes Windows system calls then why wouldn't it? In the MS-DOS days, viruses used to bypass the OS completely and even intercept BIOS calls and redirect them to custom routines. There were these techniques called stealth and tunneling. If Windows's memory protection is badly broken, then I suppose they could still do this. If they're running under WINE, then the whole of memory will look completely different and they probably won't work.

      • Flagged Comment by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 27 2025, @06:56AM (#1422440)

      • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 31 2025, @03:01AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 31 2025, @03:01AM (#1422847)

        Exactly so. WINE even provides better compatibility than Windows for things like you mention. Such is the use case for WINE on WSL. However, that is the rhetorical point made. Should you scan Windows executables for Windows viruses run on WINE? The answer is "yes" if you are worried about accidentally running one and it causing problems with your system.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 14 2025, @09:36AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 14 2025, @09:36AM (#1424309)

        Maybe one day "everything" will be on WINE: https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/ [hiler.eu] 🤣