I hadn't considered the malware aspect, but running any program not in the official repos opens that door. Running wine apps may actually be safer since wine never needs root access (the whole win filesystem is contained in the user's home directory). It could still do a lot of damage though, so that would have to be looked at carefully.
<br><br>Can AppArmor differentiate between different apps on wine, or would it view wine as a single app?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 8, 2007 8:24 PM, Sebastian Heinlein <<a href="mailto:glatzor@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">
glatzor@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Lots of your ideas have been discussed at the UDS last week. Furthermore<br>you should consider that running Windows apps also opens the door to<br>viruses and worms.<br><br>Perhaps we could perform a ClamAV scan before running a Windows
<br>application?<br></blockquote></div><br>