Installing WINE does not open your computer up to any "Windows malware" because you are directly in control of what exes, bats, and coms WINE executes. The reason being is that instead of executing someMalware like Windows, for the malware to work it would need to be initiated by WINE, and therefore by you. What this essentially means is that any windows malware needs to be executed to work, so if you download a corrupted version of someProg that in turn downloads and executes someMalware, then nothing would happen. The basic syntax for WINE (once it's installed of course) is wine programName.exstension, so if you wanted to run Evernote 5., then you would cd into the directory that Evernote is in and type wine Evernote_5.exe to run it. That means that it only runs programs that you directly tell it to run. WINE is, as you said, an implementation of Windows APIs for *Nix systems.
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