wine users - Aug 2006 - viruses for mswindows on a linux machine running wine

Hello

I have a very complete installation of wine with a lot of dll's and 
executables in .wine/... /system and system32

I have tried many windows apps and found a lot   working perfectly - just to 
try as I dont need them: native Linux apps  do as well for me

I currently use Acroread.exe which seems to run better than the linux apps  to 
view the .pdf
I  also use IZArc.exe to unpack uncommon archives   - works fine
and Myco32.exe from Myco06 for mycological researches - works perfectly
That is all what I currently use with wine

My question is: can a windows virus - like Mytob.GH    for instance, or any 
other .bat or .exe virus install itself on such a system ?

> My question is: can a windows virus - like Mytob.GH    for instance, or any
> other .bat or .exe virus install itself on such a system ?
no, most methods that virii use to install themself (get the system to run 
them on each reboot) are being ignored by wine. But nonetheless, the virus 
can be run once and can cause damage.
But there have been recent efforts to integrate a virus scanner into wine to 
stop harmful code from being executed. The only reference I could find though 
is this:
http://wiki.winehq.org/ClamAntiVirusIntegration?highlight=%28clam%29
maybe somebody knows more about the topic?

Greetings

Ramon Klass