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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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They should implement karma on Lemmy, but just for you.
Huh… Did not know this.
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
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VM escape is really hard, wine is malware compitable
Totally, 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
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
Love Over the Hedge
Wine is malware compitable!
But “wine bottle” implies running the program in a sandbox. Unless you aren’t using Bottles in a flatpak.
Wiat, I just found itch.io yesterday.
I like firejail