What’s Wine?
Initially, the name Wine was an acronym for WINdows Emulator. But now, Wine Is Not an Emulator: it is a compatibility layer, an interface that allows to run Windows binaries on a host system. To do this, Wine implements the Windows application binary interface in the user space, rather than as a kernel module. A daemon known as wineserver provides the services normally provided by Windows kernel.
The security in Wine is good enough, because applications running in Wine are confined to the current user’s privileges. For this, is a good choice to not run Wine with the superuser‘s account, because of its unlimited privileges! However, it is too difficult that a virus written for Windows damages our system.
