[LINK] Schneier on Storm Worm

[Kim Holburn]

On 2007/Oct/06, at 11:46 AM, grove at zeta.org.au wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Avi Miller wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> For example, you can't get Microsoft Access to run under WINE/ 
>> CrossOver, but the rest of Office seems to do OK.

As I recall with some difficulty and a lot of work they even got some  
viruses to run under wine.  Of course not having access to root or  
the kernel meant the viruses weren't very useful or very bad.

> That is because MS obfsuscates their API to external developers,
> leaving the codebase internals well hidden inside several layers of  
> code only visible to the MS teams.   So let's posit
> that MS already has a version of WINE, that they know all the  
> Windows secrets to, that allows it to be a perfectly MSW emulator.
>
> So they should be able to slap that on top of any OS they like,
> with a bit of effort?     They are Microsoft, after all <snigger>...

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