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How vulnerable does wine make one for windows malware?
You can look up some in-depth responses, including people showing which malware works when run through Wine. It's a pretty common question.
A relevant question and advice from the Wine FAQ: https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#Is_Wine_malware-compatible.3F
The bottom line is that you've asked a very open, broad question. 'Windows malware' covers all kinds of things: do you mean a group that has made a malware for Windows users, because that's the biggest and often easiest target? Or do you mean someone repurposing a Windows malware intentionally targeting Wine users? One will of course have more chance at success than the other.
Well, what you said applies to anything, you are just describing a way to get your PC infected. What if we just play from the official client with the same official tools we use on a Windows OS? There are so many ways to get infected, you just need to be careful and don't run things you don't know who did/coded, the same you should have been doing until today.