For those who are wondering, yes, Wine is malware compatible so be careful about the EXEs you run!
This is why I always test suspicious files on my work issued PC.
You’re the reason my Mondays are always chaos
Then you’re not going to be happy with me deploying work production code via my dedicated porn box…
I see you work for my company…
“Well no problem, they can’t run without root privileges!”
/home left the game
Time to go back to our “roots” then.
Reminds me https://xkcd.com/1200
The year of Linux desktop! Complete with the malwares!
Vulnerable to malwareMalware compatibleAnd anti cheat don’t work… Malware that gets into internals of windows probably fail like anti cheat
It can still corrupt files. I knew that wine was the shut when I had to delete my wineprefix because Eve Online complained about corrupted file. Even better, a virus scanner would run and detect the malware.
unless its just simple ransomware that will nuke your /home (ro Z:\home) content if you don’t sandbox it
Windows version of rm -rf /* would work
technically that is only true if the malware in question does something in the kernel or relies on an unimplemented wine api call, since a lot of malware is an infostealer or ransomware, its quite likely that it’ll work just fine under wine
I install all wine related stuff inside podman container usin a nice toolbox. That way your system is not polluted with all those libraries and bimboze stuff runs nicely inside a box. Not bulletproof but better than nothing
I use Nix, so I’ll just reinstall my system if anything really bad ever happens. Sometimes I reinstall just because. My important files are on a delegate drive I have to manually mount, so I’m not too worried.
One of the things I learned several years ago was how to set up my HD so that the system and home folder are on different partitions. It isn’t terribly hard to do, and every OS installer I’ve used gives you the option. It’s served me very well.
What’s the purpose of having system and home folder on different positions?
Sadly “Wine is not a container” doesn’t make for a good acronym.
WINC? 😉
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[Gru, the long-nosed protagonist of the “Despicable Me” franchise, presents to the camera, pointing into the air and smiling. Behind him is a flipchart with text reading:]
And the best part about using Linux: No viruses!
[Still presenting, Gru has his hand in a C shape and his head down as he peers at the gap between his fingers. The text now reads:]
Look at this, a website downloaded a malicious .exe on my machine.
[Gru now has his hands pointing down, fingers splayed, still presenting. The text now reads:]
*Double Click*
See? Nothing happe…
[Gru looks back to the flipchart in a double-take, his eyes round and wide and his mouth downturned. The text still reads:]
*Wine is launching*
[The Wine logo: a slightly tipped wine glass with red wine sloshing inside it.]
I am a human who transcribes posts to improve accessibility on Lemmy. Transcriptions help people who use screen readers or other assistive technology to use the site. For more information, see here.
Good human
Oh gods I’m tired. I read:
Image Transcription: Meme
And saw the line break and thought “Wow. That was a good transcription.” I think I need to go back to bed.
I feel like, for some weird reason, nobody on lemmy knows how meme templates are supposed to be used.
It’s like watching my parents try to meme and I’m here for it.
People bitching about meme usage. I am home.
you mean because of the last two panels which are supposed to be the same? I personally prefer this version, it always bothered me reading the same thing twice which didn’t add much to the meme
The double take is the meme though…
it doesn’t have to conform to the exact format to work
its like retelling a joke you heard but leaving out the punchline
If it doesn’t conform to the format, you should pick a different one that it does conform to and use that instead.
What if they couldn’t come up with a different format (even tho I may know different formats to use here I sometimes simply don’t know their name (to search for their templates) or I’m just lacking the mental capacity to think of a more fitting one :')
Damn, I wanted them free fortnite bucks.
This happened to me not long ago when I found a monero miner running on my laptop. Being a highly technical person, I feel unbounded shame.
How did you figure out it was running? How did you confirm? Teach me your methods
Please
It was pretty easy to spot in
htopsince it had really high CPU usage. Plus, the command line args it launched with included the word “Monero” multiple times, so that was a bit of a giveaway haha
Was it still through WINE? I’d feel bad for the miner as well as it likely couldn’t have done the MSR mod so low hashrate lol.
Feeling bad that a scammer couldn’t scam hard enough is hilarious. Only in a Linux forum.
Tbf, if you get an OOTB distro infected, that is most definitely user error
I haven’t run a Linux machine in years. Has wine improved or was I just not savvy enough to get things to run on it?
If you run games with Steam on Linux, it will probably use Proton, which uses Wine. It allows thousands of games to be click & play now on Linux now. See: https://www.protondb.com/
It’s gotten significantly better since ~2010 or so when I was first struggling with it. Valve developing Proton on top of it definitely didn’t hurt even if that in particular is more games focused.
Both
I still get excited launching steam on Linux.
Wine has gotten pretty good, but mostly for games rather than traditional applications.
