• lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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    8 months ago

    That’s basically sandboxing with extra steps… but whatever works for you, I guess.

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      8 months ago

      Many years ago, it was discovered that Wine could run Windows viruses/worms/malware just fine, thank you very much…

      “Sandboxing”, it isn’t.

      It runs with all the privileges of the user running the app, iirc.

      • rollingflower@lemmy.kde.social
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        8 months ago

        Thats why you should only use flatpakked wine wrappers like Bottles. Bottles has no filesystem permissions at all, everything uses portals. So I suppose (apart from maybe privileged syscalls?) Viruses would be harmless