Jeff Zaroyko wrote:
http://philosecurity.org/2009/01/12/interview-with-an-adware-author
In an interesting interview, former adware author Matt Knox mentions that he was able to run his adware client on Wine:
S: In your professional opinion, how can people avoid adware? M: Um, run UNIX.
S: [ laughs] M: We did actually get the ad client working under Wine on Linux.
S: That seems like a bit of a stretch! M: That was a pretty limited market, I'd say.
As long as the facilities exist for keeping an entire wine bottle isolated from other bottles (and ~/) I don't see this being a major issue.
Unlike disinfecting on a Windows box, which might not completely eradicate the software, with Wine `rm -rf ~/.wine` and its gone :)
The cool thing is that you can identify exactly what the junkware does with KDiff3 if it runs at all.
-Nick