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minus-squareParagone@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·8 months agoMany 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.
minus-squarerollingflower@lemmy.kde.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoThats 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
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.
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