winepatht.exe - infector for Wine?

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winepatht.exe - infector for Wine?

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While backing up my .wine tree, I stumbled across a file winepatht.exe with 000 permissions in system32. Without further thought, I deleted it. Then it occurred to me that maybe someone's working on a virus that's portable to Wine. Google search comes up empty, so I thought I'd raise it here to see if anyone knows anything.

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While backing up my .wine tree, I stumbled across a file winepatht.exe with 000 permissions in system32. Without further thought, I deleted it. Then it occurred to me that maybe someone's working on a virus that's portable to Wine. Google search comes up empty, so I thought I'd raise it here to see if anyone knows anything.
It's certainly possible for someone to write a Wine-aware virus, but I wouldn't expect them to announce their intentions here.
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