http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11421
Summary: Wine makes possible for windows virus to work? Product: Wine Version: unspecified Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: wineserver AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: tsalacinski@gmail.com
I know that it's too early to say this, but when Wine started to support Run and RunOnce registry entries, I have few Windows worms on my computer (I've been using ies4linux).
Is this possible, that when for example virus developer will think about supporting Linux he will steal data? I think, yes.
As we know, wine have access to the whole drive (most users have / configured as Z:). If we have a virus installed in Run in the registry, and the virus will look for every drive in the system (especially for Z:) it can try to detect if there is any Z:\home[user] directory and it can steal data from it.
Virus devs can even try to compile their viruses with libwine to check if they will work on Linux.