This is pure gold
windows virus from the game played through proton on linux finding itself on an empty c drive
3 days ago by blibla to c/linuxmemes
Natanael 1 point 2 days ago
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CaptainBasculin 213 points 3 days ago
Meanwhile innocent looking Z:/ drive
Aceticon 19 points 3 days ago
All my Windows games that I launch from Lutris (which are most, since I tend to avoid Steam and prefer GOG) are launched by default inside a Firejail container configured amongst other things to have no networking enabled.
All you need to do for it is to setup a "command prefix" with firejail and its launch parameters at the Lutris level and it becomes the default one for all games.
So yeah, this runs Wine inside an actual security solution and since it's setup at the level or the launcher I use, it does it for all the games I launch from it.
mysterious_cake 11 points 3 days ago
I guess not allowing flatpak wine to access anything that is not necessary is the easiest way to achieve it. No idea if it is also the most secure solution.
Artemis_Mystique 11 points 3 days ago
unless you have it sandboxed in a flatpack container
thorhop 138 points 3 days ago
Here's a careful reminder that Linux viruses can come in Windows executables.
When it comes to hacking in the modern day it's all about escaping the box - whether that box is a container, a VM, a sandbox or indeed even an emulated environment. So we should still fear the binary blob.
Remember: update early, update often - no matter how painful that sounds.
Maestro 77 points 3 days ago
Remember: update early, update often - no matter how painful that sounds.
Not anymore! Supply chain attacks have become so common that it's prudent to wait at least 7 days before updating to prevent installing malware from compromised update infrastructure.
dgdft 17 points 3 days ago
Debian + unattended upgrades + modern package managers for non-system-installed software covers your bases very well.
Debian packages are downstream enough from their sources that the packaging delay keeps you safe (and means the updates have had human eyes on them before they hit you). Unattended upgrades means you don’t have to worry about running the upgrades yourself.
Pip, npm, and the other big package managers now also support dependency cooldowns on their recent releases, but uv and pnpm pioneered that and cover you for older release environments.
XiJinpingStanAccount 8 points 3 days ago
Also I would heavily advocate for Debian Testing if you need a rolling release distro. It is less vetted than stable but is still more vetted than many other rolling release options and you can just stay on testing as versions change while getting features pretty fast compared to stable.
nroth 8 points 3 days ago
I really like Arch because I have a very custom setup and like to try the newest things, but this really worries me as Arch-based user-friendly distros that use the same packages make the repos a bigger target.
signalsayge 4 points 3 days ago
On the other hand, AI has made the patch to exploit code as short as 45 minutes.
DevDave 5 points 3 days ago
I switched from Debian to an arch based distro. holy shit is it weird reading about some new things latest release only to have it pushed to the repo the same month or even the same day! I use btrfs so when things break its a 5 minute rollback and reboot.
capital5 14 points 3 days ago
I read a hilarious article, probably 2 decades ago by now, where a guy decided to try running Windows viruses on Linux in Wine.
If this really is a threat today, I would say that Wine has become a pretty damn impressive project. Here's the link in case anyone else wants to read it: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/...
dgdft 4 points 3 days ago
There’s never been an instance of widespread malware built with a dedicated ability to persist on a Linux host through Wine.
It wouldn’t be hard at all for a hacker to manually wire up linux-specific malware on a computer once they had a RAT running in Wine, but there’s no credible risk of windows malware automatically installing “linux viruses” at present.
Cosmonaut_Collin 3 points 2 days ago
We need to get proton for templeos so we can be safe.
SilverJeyJey 13 points 2 days ago
Reddit is garbage
programmerlexi 1 point a day ago
Not paywalled, just straight up preventing it, which they have been doing for years now. But yt-dlp still works for downloading from reddit, if so desired.
SilverJeyJey 1 point 20 hours ago
I prefer reddit UI but the community is annoying asf. No one has the mental capacity to discuss and the emotional control of a toddler.
pineapplelover 1 point 2 days ago
New user?
pineapplelover 1 point a day ago
Oh I think we migrated around similar times then (I'm a lemm.ee refugee). I thought you were surprised that photos and videos were available to download when this wasn't a recent lemmy change
Axolotl_cpp 38 points 3 days ago
"Okay i'il look in to other drives"
Wine is a flatpak
KernelTale 16 points 3 days ago
yea, I play pirated games via flatpak bottles in hopes that getting out of the sandbox would be far too much work for the possible gains.
diaphragmwp 1 point 3 days ago
Hmmmmmm, maybe the virus shouldn't use GTK dialogs for opening files and call open(3)? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Axolotl_cpp 1 point 3 days ago
I don't get what you mean
diaphragmwp 4 points 3 days ago
Type man 3 open.
That's what most Flatpak apps may do instead of asking permission via a fancy menu, which actually just does the same thing.
ThunderComplex 24 points 3 days ago
I'm sorry Linus Torvalds is personally trying to destroy your PC
MangoPenguin 22 points 3 days ago
Isn't your user data available in Wine on Z:\ though? I laughed at the meme but I'd still be worried info stealer malware or similar would have no problem grabbing the data it's looking for as Wine does no sandboxing at all.
MangoPenguin 3 points 3 days ago
Yeah, I'm sure some malware would fail on wine but some could still be just as bad compared to running windows natively.
DragonOracleIX 1 point 3 days ago
Flatpak bottles can use wine in a sandboxed environment. Both flatpak and bottles have ways to restrict access to parts of the filesystem.
captainlezbian 11 points 3 days ago
Jokes on them, even when I ran windows my os wasn't on C, I think it was like E
captainlezbian 5 points 3 days ago
Well I'm known to be a certified freak in the hard drive
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