How to tell if wine is rooted?

Question

I’ve heard that wine can install window viruses if rooted. How can I tell if my wine is rooted?

Answer 1

Wine by default runs programs as admin within itself, but wine can even be broken by trying to run it as root. Never run it as root. To tell if it is "rooted" just see what command you use to launch it. If it includes "sudo" or "gksudo" or even "kdesudo" you are running it as root. Wine is subject to viruses in the same way a non admin windows account can be. Just make sure what you are running in it is safe and you should be fine.