Wine being targeted for adware

[Hin-Tak Leung]

--- On Wed, 14/1/09, James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> However, we should attempt to block adware as a matter of
> policy?  That is up to the Wine User Community and not based
> on the opinions of one or two people.  I for one would like
> to see if this is possible and feasible.  I do know that
> some of the virus testing community are using Wine as a
> Virtual Machine to see how much damage can be done by
> viruses in that environment.

One thing I think would be useful would be an option to disable networking capability unless an application is known to need it. Other than that, it is quite difficult to characterise the kind of software behavior from malware - e.g. accessing H: ($HOME) or Z: ( root drive /) is quite useful for most windows software desirable to run under wine, so limiting access to files by drive area is a bit painful.

Just my thoughts... I dearly would like the option to temporarily or by-default disable networking for any applications under wine.