It was my understanding, from the articles I read, that you only opened up 
the file structures that make up the wine installation, and if you get a 
virus or worm, it could only infect that exposed area, not the whole 
installed partition.  Then, if you get a virus, simply reinstall either wine 
or just the application, I wasn't clear which, but the Linux world of your 
file system would be untouched.

I could be wrong.

Jim

On Monday 01 April 2002 06:37 pm, hanasaki wrote:
> Just remember that installing a M$ application under Crossover/Wine also
> installs support for M$ virus', and thus opens up any Wine Exposed Linux
> partitions to said virus'.