James Takac wrote:
> There is another possible way it **might** get in, aka, running said binary
> installs through the likes of wine. I'm no expert here and don't understand
> the workings of wine enough to know just how probable this scene is though

    Insignificant.  Spyware acts by introducing itself into the boot sequence
of Windows.  Wine does not boot so no boot sequence to introduce itself into.

I did mention I didn't know enough about wine. Though my experience with windows is that spyware will try to introduce itself more or less  to the areas that windows will try to execute upon it's booting which is different to going through the boot sequence, i.e. oncw\e windows has loaded it will see what it is asked to load up before the user sees the desktop proper. not before windows loads. Most can be killed by monitoring such areas as the startup menu in the start menu, or the runonce entry in the registry, etc. For the most part they're not that hard to spot thru the task manager either whern viewing the processes. It's just that with windows being the more popular os it's the one that attrats the attention of those wanting to reach the most targets. Once the situtation reverses and linux becomes the more popular os, it's likely to change