On Nov 8, 2007 8:45 PM, Nicolas Alvarez <<a href="mailto:nicolas.alvarez@gmail.com">nicolas.alvarez@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >Do you consider helping DDoS a website being "a lot of damage"? I do. >Connecting to an IRC server to wait for instructions from the botnet >master and sending requests to a website is something any normal user >can do. Sorry, I was thinking more in terms of directly harming the user's system, not botnets etc. but you're right: a lot of malicious things can be accomplished by an unprivileged user. Requiring AV scans would certainly help, but if a user really wants to run a program, they have the ability to ignore the AV and run it anyways. Maybe ignoring wine, and just sticking to finding repo alternatives would be a safer bet.