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[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You guys are quick to forget that Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) is, in fact, not an emulator. Most windows ransomware will successfully encrypt your files if ran with wine.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That is why I always try to avoid installing Wine natively

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

How else do you install WINE? Is it possible to sandbox WINE apps?