On 09.02.2010 13:31, josebelda wrote: > Thank you very much for your reply. Note, that unless worm/virus/troian specifically targets wine, removing ~/.wine would be enough, re-formating whole system is not necessary. Running wine from separate user (that cannot easily obtain root via sudo [like usual "desktop user/admin"], does not have access to private user data [~/.mozilla/*/*/{signons,cookies}* and alike], and, maybe, limited network access [with something like iptables -N winejail iptables -A winejail -j REJECT iptables -A OUTPUT -o ! lo -m owner --uid-owner wineuser -j winejail plus some rules to specifically allow network on some ports/addresses: iptables -I winejail -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT iptables -I winejail -p tcp -d ${dns-server} --dport 53 -j ACCEPT iptables -I winejail -p udp -d ${dns-server} --dport 53 -j ACCEPT ]) would also help limit damage from such incident even with wine-aware viruses. BTW, does anyone know if wine-aware malware (that able to use int $0x80 to bypass ~/.wine/dosdevices jail, etc) already exists in the wild, or it is still only theoretical threat? :-) PS And I don't know, where topicstarter got idea, that port 6969 is used only by malware - as quick lookup at google:// shows, this port frequently used by torrent trackers.