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[–] 93 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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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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  • [–] 79 points 2 years ago (2 children)
    [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    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

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Love Over the Hedge

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    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")

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wiat, I just found itch.io yesterday.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I like firejail

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Doesn’t wine app still have access to your home dir?

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