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.
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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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...
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Image Transcription: Meme
[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.]
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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.
Thanks human
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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.
Same thing happened on Reddit, honestly.
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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 htop since 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
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“Well no problem, they can’t run without root privileges!” -/home left the game
Time to go back to our "roots" then.
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Even better: Wine defaults to giving access to your whole drive to new prefixes.
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You really don't think Linux has viruses? I'm confused by this post. Is it an excuse to shit on wine and windows?
They're super rare. I've not gotten one once in decades, whereas I've encountered countless viruses on Windows. Linux is more secure, but also it's just a smaller target. Best way to avoid viruses is to use an OS nobody else wants to use *taps head
I think you have a false sense of security with regards to Linux vulnerabilities and exploitations. There are dozen of known exploits throughout the Linux ecosystem that are publicly disclosed frequently.
What makes you think Linux is more secure than windows? I'm not trying to start an argument here I'm just curious.
I find the Linux ecosystem has far better updating mechanisms than Windows and it doesn't have as much backwards compatibility cruft as Windows. That and the open source nature I think is better at having exploits uncovered. I'm not saying Linux is perfectly secure, but that it's more secure than Windows. But I think the biggest reason it's less likely to get viruses is just that it's a smaller target and that hackers aren't spending as much time trying to attack it, plus the users are more tech savvy meaning any attacks will be less lucrative.
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To be fair, I haven't gotten a windows virus in at least 25 years either...
Getting a virus takes real effort. I feel like the whole virus debate is just 2000s hangover, and people never update their shit talking points.
What is actually a threat are scams. Seniors being called, lied to and forced to compromise themselves. Those are the real viruses of 2023. And obviously 99% of seniors are on Windows.
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And 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 (or Z:\home) content if you don't sandbox it
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~~Vulnerable to malware~~ Malware compatible
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.
Take the next step, and write a simple ansible playbook to configure your installed applications and services. It looks a little complicated at first but it's pretty easy.
Then you just keep your playbook with your other files. When you decide to reinstall, you just install ansible then run it on your playbook. It'll install and set up everything you add to your OS.
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The year of Linux desktop! Complete with the malwares!
I install all wine related stuff inside podman container usin a nice thing called 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
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Best self checkmate I've seen tonight
Damn, I wanted them free fortnite bucks.
Wine also mounts your home directory by default so... yeah...
no matter what os you use you can get viruses on linux and macos the chanche is slimmer because they have a smaller user base. the only way to not get viruses is to use your brain. for those who don't know there are linux viruses and you can get them if you don't pay attention
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I remember. 22 years ago. https://m.slashdot.org/story/20461
And 14 years ago. https://m.slashdot.org/story/126359
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I just got a real bad malware on my windows PC and I'm legit considering using Linux as a response. What's the best into to someone who isn't a programmer but understands computers relatively well enough?
Try a few different distros. People often recommend Mint for a beginner. I use Fedora personally, I also like Debian, it's stable but a bit boring and can be outdated. You can also creat a bootable live USB and try before you install!
Tbh, I consider "a bit boring" a pretty good feature for an OS. "Exciting" usually means dozens of hours to fix simple things.
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