[LINK] Schneier on Storm Worm

[Avi Miller]

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On 06/10/2007, at 12:01 PM, grove at zeta.org.au wrote:

> Why does a package like "Parallels desktop" or "Wine" work so well
>  even though it's not Windows

Just a note: Parallels is a virtual machine host (like VMware). It  
does not run Windows applications unless you install a copy of  
Windows into a virtual machine. For that, you'd need a legal copy of  
Windows. WINE (and its cousins, CrossOver Office and TransGaming) are  
Win32 API emulators that don't require a copy of Windows. They are  
very specific to certain applications and cannot run just any Windows  
application. For example, you can't get Microsoft Access to run under  
WINE/CrossOver, but the rest of Office seems to do OK.

cYa,
Avi

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