how to present Windows binarys run under wine when users complain about malware risk

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What's a good way to post a open source Windows binary (with a wine shell script to run it) on a linux internet forum?

I tried posting a link to the Windows binary, the original Windows source code from about 2005, and the shell script using wine.

Forum users complained that a binary can contain malware, and they also didn't like the file hosting site where I'd put the binaries. They wanted source code they could compile directly to linux, but of course somebody would have to port the old Windows source code before they could do that.

Do old binaries like this pose a significant malware risk on a modern linux system?

What can I do to reassure users on the forum, besides pointing out that they can set up an isolated linux partition which would prevent malware from causing any damage?

And what's a good file hosting site to host the binaries? You can't put big binaries on github.

Thanks!

[madewokherd]

If they don't trust you then I don't see how providing the binaries on a different site would make a difference.

If they do trust you, but they don't trust the site, you can provide them with a sha256 hash of the file to assure them it hasn't been tampered with (assuming you have a means of communication that they also trust).

If it's sufficiently small/simple you might be able to get it building with mingw, but I doubt that's the case here. And personally, having source code doesn't mean much to me if it's too large for me to examine it and too unpopular to expect anyone else to have examined it.

[sponsor61]

Would creating an isolated partition and running the code from there solve the problem, do you think? Malware can't escape from the partition if the partition is disconnected from the internet.