[kkid106]

I have a piece of windows software from an unknown publisher which I am a little unsure of - I do not know if it is a virus or not for sure.

Is it safer to run it via wine in Ubuntu than it is via Windows?

It is not software where I will be entering any of my own details so I am not worried about my information begin stolen that way, I am more worried of viruses which affect other parts of a computer.

 

[hal8000]

In one word, no.
If you use Internet Explorer 7 in wine and the program is used to attack different websites for example, then it may try to do the same and open multiple ports, however
this behaviour cannot be passed on to the host system, Ubuntu as file structure, file type,
file properties are all different.

Depending on what the software is, it may not work with Wine at all, you can always search the WineApp database.

 

[kkid106]

In one word, no.
If you use Internet Explorer 7 in wine and the program is used to attack different websites for example, then it may try to do the same and open multiple ports, however
this behaviour cannot be passed on to the host system, Ubuntu as file structure, file type,
file properties are all different.

Depending on what the software is, it may not work with Wine at all, you can always search the WineApp database.

Oh right, interesting. Thanks for the info.

So only certain programs work with wine then? Wine has to be adapted for each program to be compatible?

In that case, as this is a program from an independent developer, it's unlikely to be compatible?

I'll check for sure tomorrow when I'm next on my laptop

 

[djaburg]

Of course my question would be why run software that you are concerned might be a virus?