On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 20:55, TUA85550 <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I understand the Wine can get viruses and could potentially infect your system. My question is if all I am using Wine for is Gaming and Microsoft Office, could I still get a virus? I mean if I load up FireFox (which is installed by default on Ubuntu) and go to a web site that has a virus, would I automatically become infected or the only way to get a virus is to load up FireFox (the windows version) from wine which would auto go straight into my wine directory. > If you stay eith trusted apps (and maybe run them though ClamAV (under Linux / OS X) before installing them in Wine, keep your web browsing off Wine, you should be fine....) (You DO want to scan PDF and Office documents beforehand though...) Windows vulnerabilities that often result in a (unpatched) Windows PC getting infected by just being on and on the internet won't affect Wine, since it doesn't include any network facing services... Office macro virusses will run though, as might any exploits targeting office... (You would still need to open the file within the application under Wine...)
