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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

WINE: explorer.exe, running all the time

Hi,

I've got no application running under wine, but I still got this:

$ ps -aux | grep "explorer.exe"
alexey   16008  0.0  0.1 1788628 15884 ?       Ssl  07:14   0:00 C:\windows\system32\explorer.exe /desktop
alexey   21764  0.0  0.0  10896  2240 pts/3    S+   14:16   0:00 grep --colour=auto explorer.exe

Is it OK, or have I just caught some malware with wine?

Llama

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Registered: 2008-03-03

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Re: WINE: explorer.exe, running all the time

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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 12,028

Re: WINE: explorer.exe, running all the time

Hard to tell, but maybe we can narrow down what causes that :

Is explorer.exe present immediately after login ?

If not, try running some of your wine applications one by one and check if for explorer.exe after you close them.

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JohnBobSmith

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From: Canada

Registered: 2014-11-29

Posts: 804

Re: WINE: explorer.exe, running all the time

If I can dig into the old and burning depths of my Windows knowledge I'm pretty sure explorer.exe is the file manager, but it's entirely possible it manages other things. Things like the desktop; see PCManFM for an example of this. I'm also reasonably certain it's a core windows process, and, as we know, windows loves to have as much crap as possible running all the time.

Long story short, I wouldn't worry too much.

EDIT: If you're really worried about mawlare under WINE I'm almost certain you can find articles/whatever regarding the hardening of your WINE install. Maybe try running it in some sort of jail for starters. Never using the built-in WINE web browser. Proactively and carefully examining what you can to ensure it has no malware on it. That sort of stuff.

Last edited by JohnBobSmith (2016-06-10 16:27:42)

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teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 519

Re: WINE: explorer.exe, running all the time

I've got no application running under wine, but I still got this:

I have wine installed and until I launch something with wine, no windows processes are running.

After running

wine notepad

pgrep -fl windows
32423 services.exe
32427 winedevice.exe
32491 plugplay.exe
32498 explorer.exe

After closing notepad, all windows processes are gone.

wine winefile

pgrep -fl windows
32730 services.exe
32734 winedevice.exe
32742 plugplay.exe
32749 explorer.exe

After closing winefile, all the windows crap closes.

Don't know what good that info does you, but looks like when nothing is running under wine, no windows processes should be open.

frank604

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From: BC, Canada

Registered: 2011-04-20

Posts: 1,212

Re: WINE: explorer.exe, running all the time

From my own experience with wine, some apps will leave explorer and other apps open after close.  I don't believe it to be malware.