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Valve removes free horror game from Steam after players discover it contains malware that steals your data (www.pcguide.com)
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[–] 73 points 5 months ago* (7 children)

Proton does not protect you from harm. It’s not a sandbox.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    No but it also doesn't have windows on the other side, someone would have to target a proton setup to get much of anything.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Ye no. If i made malware for windows that goes over all reported drives wine will just happily translate that. Hell, by default wine will map root as z: so no, wine/proton will not help.

    Even wannacry was able to cause some damage to linux if ran through wine

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Thanks! That's very useful to know - I'd have assumed it can only see it's own files within the wineprefix folder.

    It looks like trying Steam within flatpak, and limiting the flatpak's access might offer some protection. Or maybe getting stem to run as a different user.

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