http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34092
--- Comment #4 from Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@baikal.ru 2013-07-20 21:51:26 CDT --- (In reply to comment #3)
https://www.virustotal.com/de/file/f7f19e3bc3fa6c8d94121543e9427f82debbd3a76... shows that wine's iexplore is detected as malware by five antivirus programs: Commtouch, Comodo, Norman, Symantec, and TrendMicro-HouseCall.
So perhaps we have some outreach to do.
Did you pass your own fake iexplore.exe compiled on your OS or used some other source? Just a note: iexplore.exe in Wine (just like other fake .exe/.dll files) doesn't contain any code, just resources, so it's very unlikely that Wine fake PEs may even contain anything for an antivirus check.