Wine being targeted for adware

[Gert van den Berg]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
> Of course, Wine is open source, so if someone wants to edit it for
> that purpose, by all means, do so. I'm not sure that Wine _should_ do
> so though, at least, not now. Networking on a per app basis I can see
> an argument for, since Windows Firewall is now included and provides
> such a feature.

Can't SELinux or something similar disable network access per-application?

I would think that this kind of functionality should be provided by
the OS, not by Wine. (Having control over what can / can't get to the
network can be real handy for purposes such as server-hardening.)
(Solaris Trusted Extensions seem to provide this kind of
functionality...)

Wine should probably at least provide APIs that can be used by
anti-malware applications... (I'm not sure about recent applications,
but, IIRC, older ones under Windows 9x used to use drivers for
on-access scanning which is not currently supported in Wine)

Gert