Is Installing Wine in Ubuntu Safe?

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Risks/Disadvantages associated with Wine

According to many articles like this one, it says that windows is more vulnerable to virus.
I recently installed wine on my Ubuntu to run some windows programs by
sudo apt-get install wine
It when I looked into the directory structure I got to know that the windows program regedit.exe has been installed along with other simple windows programs.
As per my knowledge some of the windows viruses give network access to registry making windows vulnerable for attacks.
I am worried that installing wine would make the system vulnerable. Is it so? Are there any solutions to this problem?

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From Wine wiki

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Because of Wine's ability to run Windows binary code, concerns have been raised over native Windows viruses and malware affecting Unix-like operating systems Wine can run much malware, but programs running in Wine are confined to the Current user's Privileges, restricting some undesirable consequences. This is one reason Wine should never be run as the superuser.

Which basically means , you should never run wine with su or Sudo privileges . And rest assured , you are safe from Windows Malware , since it mostly runs as Compatibility layer more or less like emulator but not entirely i guess.

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