Is wine safe to use or am I at greater risk by installing ??
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if you are worried about windows viruses and stuff, the worst a program running under wine can do is mess up your wine "installation" (inside your ~/.wine)
Yes, whichever directories that a user has setup as writable (check in winecfg) can be written to by any program run under wine. Having said that the chances of coming across anything bad is probably quite rare. Most viruses and exploits these days would come through email, across the internet via unprotected ports, or in office documents (macros), so you have to be careful about what you are running and opening.
Wine is not Windows. Security holes Windows has do not exist in Wine. Wine may have it's own security holes, it doesn't matter. Windows viruses looking for familiar environment are literally stranded.
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