http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10324
--- Comment #4 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2007-11-06 13:22:52 --- In reply to comment 2: I thought about that after submitting the bug, since some programs require access to privileged ports, etc. But a simple pop-up should hopefully prevent those who don't know better from using it as root, but those who know what they're doing/need it will continue on as usual.
In reply to comment 3: Could put something in winecfg as well, or a registry key to override.