--- title: What Happens When Windows Malware Runs on Linux? | daily.dev description: An experiment running three real Windows malware samples on Ubuntu via Wine to see if they execute. All three samples — a blue screen crasher, the No Escape... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-happens-when-windows-malware-runs-on-linux--olxwnbuks twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What Happens When Windows Malware Runs on Linux? | daily.dev og:description: An experiment running three real Windows malware samples on Ubuntu via Wine to see if they execute. All three samples — a blue screen crasher, the No Escape... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-happens-when-windows-malware-runs-on-linux--olxwnbuks og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/OlxwNbUKS.png og:image:alt: What Happens When Windows Malware Runs on Linux? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What Happens When Windows Malware Runs on Linux? **[YouTube](https://daily.dev/sources/youtube)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An experiment running three real Windows malware samples on Ubuntu via Wine to see if they execute. All three samples — a blue screen crasher, the No Escape virus, and a Notepad Trojan — failed to run, producing only a flashing cursor with no background processes. The likely reason is that these samples depend on core Windows system components that Wine does not implement, rather than Linux having any inherent immunity. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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