Wine being targeted for adware

[Nicholas LaRoche]

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