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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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
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")
The pursuit of knowledge is endless; It's good to ask questions, but always do your own research too, as myself or anyone else could not know what they're talking about.
25 Comments
Transcriptionist@lemmy.world · 94 pts · 3y
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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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everett@lemmy.ml · 38 pts · 3y
They should implement karma on Lemmy, but just for you.
faith@lemmy.ml · 82 pts · 3y
https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#Is_Wine_malware-compatible.3F
Doomguy1364@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 33 pts · 3y
https://docs.usebottles.com/flatpak/expose-directories/use-system-home#sandboxed-userdir-homedir
guriinii@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Huh.. Did not know this.
kabobglance@infosec.pub · 28 pts · 3y
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
Colorcodedresistor@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 3y
MTK@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
VM escape is really hard, wine is malware compitable
kabobglance@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 3y
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
nogrub@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 3y
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
sup@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 3y
Love Over the Hedge
MTK@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Wine is malware compitable!
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11416-018-0319-9
hch12907@programming.dev · 2 pts · 3y
But "wine bottle" implies running the program in a sandbox. Unless you aren't using Bottles in a flatpak.
jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org · 5 pts · 3y
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?
Doomguy1364@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 3y
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")
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
Especially if you have Bottles installed as the Flatpak.
Doomguy1364@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 3y
Sand-boxing only works fully if you have the Flatpak; Thanks for mentioning this as I forgot to specify!
jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org · 4 pts · 3y
Thanks for the meme!
Yeah, meme or not if I can learn something I will ask a question, hahahaha
Thanks for taking the time to explain it further!
Have an awesome day!
Doomguy1364@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 3y
No problem!
The pursuit of knowledge is endless; It's good to ask questions, but always do your own research too, as myself or anyone else could not know what they're talking about.
I hope you have a great day as well!
Custodian1623@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
You don't need to upload anything to virustotal, just hash the file and paste it in to the search
sokz@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
Wiat, I just found itch.io yesterday.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 3y
Just looking for indie games, right? Need a knockoff Metroidvania?
sokz@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 3y
No I was horny.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 3y
Por que no los dos?
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 3y
I like firejail
Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi · -1 pts · 2y
Doesn’t wine app still have access to your home dir?