"Dan Kegel" dank@kegel.com wrote:
http://www.thaibrother.com/blog/?p=1047 is a fairly thin article about malware in wine; it's worth mentioning only because it shows the issue is getting discussed more.
As Wine gains functionality --- supporting Windows services, binary drivers, registry startup programs, etc --- it seems like it will be more vulnerable on this score.
From my somewhat naive point of view regarding Windows malware, I would like to see Wine have the option of only running the app that I asked it to and not a bunch of other stuff that gets auto-loaded and run.
An option like that could be billed as making Wine "safer" than Windows.
I'm also really glad that my Wine-based product is moving away from running Wine as root!
Cheers... mo