After protesting loudly and losing the argument, I ended up deploying ie6 across the network via wine. It took aproximately 3 days before they became infested.

Isn't cleaning them up just a case of killing all the wine-server processes then deleting and replacing the contents of the fake C: drive?

By equating the terms "operating system" and "user interface". What wisty was referring to was not "using the operating system" to chown and sudo, but rather "using a different user interface".