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.