Does installing wine pose a risk of virus infection? I'm afraid a powerful virus can bypass wine sandbox and gain access to root linux.
Thank you.
You can execute native executables inside wine, so if the virus knows what to do with a native executable, and if you have write access to the executable, then it is possible.
Wine is not a sandbox, it is a compatibility layer. There is nothing preventing code from crossing back and forth other than a lack of programmers with the knowledge and desire.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=72598
. This guy installed some viruses and then posted what happened. That was way back in 2005, when Wine was nowhere near as good at running applications as it is today. I would suggest you assume Linux / UNIX with WINE is no more secure against viruses than Windows.
Apr 21, 2010 at 16:04