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