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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.
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
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.
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?
You 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")
You don't need to upload anything to virustotal, just hash the file and paste it in to the search
Wiat, I just found itch.io yesterday.
I like firejail
