Let's say I download pirated shit from The Pirate Bay and install it via WINE. If it has a virus, would this virus affect my machine?
Viruses in WINE
Brody Bennett
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Jordan Perry
I drink vodka and play STALKER on Windows 7 Ultimate. You should try it too, tovarisch (;
David Cook
Of course it could. As long as wine is able to run it, which, given its ability to run software is pretty bad, it will probably not run.
Jace Gomez
it'll run but it'll only affect the wine files at most, if that. I highly doubtful generic windows viruses/malware have coding for Linux based systems, and even then, not sure how that'd work. if you're that worried, try it in a VM first, just to make sure it's not a virus, then do it in wine when you are sure it's okay.
Thomas Harris
I made a virus but it doesn't work in WINE. Should I file a bug report?
Kayden Sullivan
>If it has a virus, would this virus affect my machine?
youtube.com
The exploit WannaCry used didn't work on linux, but if wine is able to access your /home dir it will still encrypt your files. Thus, yes it could affect your machine.
Evan Sullivan
Maybe. Probably not though. System calls are different
Liam Taylor
probebly not becuz bugs r insects & viruses arnt eben animols lole..........
Colton Nguyen
Yes, WINE is also compatible with a surprising amount of malware.
Samuel Thompson
lmao this
Lincoln Baker
Reminder that wine is still executing code on your CPU. if a program managed to exploit spectre/meltdown tier bugs then it can bypass the OS entirely and hide in everything from UEFI and unused firmware/hard drive space.
Xavier Hill
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Landon Bell
reminder that 99.99% of virus makers are too dumb to do this
Zachary Ross
0.01% is CIA
Aaron Kelly
make your own flatpaks or github.com
you can restrict the sandbox as much as you want
Blake Edwards
based slav
Joshua Hill
Awwww guys, thanks! I wasn't even trying to be funny. You just made my day, seriously.
Jeremiah Wright
Or do as most devs do: shit on sandbox and allow fuckin' everything.
Then be surprised when your linux gets fucked in the ass big time.
Brayden Powell
Just use a VM with GPU passthrough. Way more secure.
Christian King
>flatpak
Adam Mitchell
Wannacry works on GNU/Linux and macOS through Wine. Wine is not a sandbox nor a virtual machine, it literally translates calls the program makes to calls your OS can understand, so it has technically access to all its resources.
Jeremiah Rodriguez
Yes, it can interact with other files in unsandboxed environment.
Elijah Campbell
This.
10 years ago I tested a shitty VB6 C&C over WINE and most features just werked.