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On 11/03/14 10:46, Neil Winchurst wrote:
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:43:55 +0000 Brad Rogers <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:33:35 +0000 Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hello Neil,stupid enough to open up that attachment would any nasty program fail to run because we don't use Windows?It's almost a certainty that the payload will only run in a Windows environment.That is what I thought. So what would happen, it would just sit there and do nothing, or an error message perhaps? Not that it matters, I have no plans to do anything with such rubbish except trash it. Thanks Neil
If you have Wine installed, you may get your .wine directory infected however it's very unlikely that this will infect your normal operations. Depending on the nature of the attack, your executables in the .wine directory may get infected but otherwise you probably wouldn't notice a problem.
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