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A still of Verne the turtle from the movie Over the Hedge looking around a fancy garden in wary confusion. Text at the top of the image reads "The Virus bundled in the sketchy Itch.io game running in a wine bottle." Subtitles on the image read "What is this place?"
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92They should implement karma on Lemmy, but just for you.
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To add to the other security conscious comments, even if you wanted to run a VM, there are attacks that escalpe the VM and hit the underlining OS
Computers are inherently insecure
28imperfect creatures making insecure robots. there is a solid sit com in there , like 'being human' both UK and US version.
12VM escape is really hard, wine is malware compitable
3Totally, difficult but by no means impossible. I think we should be cautious and have less hubris when it comes to computer security, that was my point
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just to throw it out there linux still has viruses it's just not as targeted as windows because more people use windows. -a linux user
23Love Over the Hedge
13Wine is malware compitable!
6But "wine bottle" implies running the program in a sandbox. Unless you aren't using Bottles in a flatpak.
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Is there no website to check them before installing? Or it is not worth the time in Linux? Similar to VM or sandboxed system?>
Something similar to: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload
I use it to check APK downloads before putting it on my phone.
Anyone know more about this?
5You can use virustotal for any game/file under 650MBs; This meme was created as a joke, good security practices should always be followed.
No anti virus will be 100% accurate, viruses get missed all the time, while legitimate software can acquire false flags.
I would never recommend just running a random .exe you find on the internet with wine as any non-root protected files could potentially be damaged; With Bottles (the application) all files outside of the created bottle are not visible to programs ran/installed inside the bottle.
If you really want to try something, throwing caution to the wind, running it in a wine BOTTLE that's created just for that program, has a low chance of damaging your computer. (This does not mean "safe")
20You don't need to upload anything to virustotal, just hash the file and paste it in to the search
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Wiat, I just found itch.io yesterday.
3I like firejail
2Doesn’t wine app still have access to your home dir?
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