I am using Wine under Manjaro linux. I have a need for running just two Windows programs, both of which work well with Wine. But I am concerned about opening vulnerability to malware by having Wine installed. It appears about 30% of malware could actually run successfully under Wine (see https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11416-018-0319-9)
It's not realistic for me to run Wine as a separate user with restricted directory access as described here, because I need access to many of the same files with Wine that I access from my linux home directory.
I have found some instructions for limiting what programs can be run in Windows here. It looks like some manual editing of the registry can do this. One would just do
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wine regeditMy question is, does anyone have any thoughts about whether this is worth doing? First, is the Wine registry system similar enough to real Windows that this would work? Second, would that really stop malware?
Kind of an open-ended question, but if anyone has some security expertise I’d appreciate your input.
