I was hoping for a story.

Did you read the article? Simple text and PDF readers are in the cross hairs. Apps that aren’t “engaging” are in the cross hairs.

I expect developers of perfectly fine apps will have to manually vet those apps with Google.

Depends on what the virus is built to do.

I read someone intentionally infected their Linux system with a Windows virus, and they lost the home directory.

Clarify the question. Make sure I heard it correctly.

I got more info with increased verbosity:

wine client error:150: write: Bad file descriptor 01a8:err:ntoskrnl:ZwLoadDriver failed to create driver L"\\Registry\\Machine\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\lirsgt": c0000142

A little searching found that this is a copy protection file. Interesting because I copied the disc’s files to a directory and installed from there. Wondering if installing from the discs themselves would fare better.

Thanks! Increasing verbosity should be useful.

I’ll post back when i try that.