all 59 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 220 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] 201 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Meanwhile innocent looking Z:/ drive

  • source
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] 131 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Yeah, Wine is not a secure container. Don't count on it for security.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Isn't a way possible to prevent z:/ mapping while creating wine prefix ?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    It's not just the drive letter mapping, Wine doesn't make any attempt to secure software.

    You can run Wine inside an actual security solution.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago*

    All my Windows games that I launch from Lutris (which are most, since I tend to avoid Steam and prefer GOG) are launched by default inside a Firejail container configured amongst other things to have no networking enabled.

    All you need to do for it is to setup a "command prefix" with firejail and its launch parameters at the Lutris level and it becomes the default one for all games.

    So yeah, this runs Wine inside an actual security solution and since it's setup at the level or the launcher I use, it does it for all the games I launch from it.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 134 points 1 month ago (16 children)

    Here's a careful reminder that Linux viruses can come in Windows executables.

    When it comes to hacking in the modern day it's all about escaping the box - whether that box is a container, a VM, a sandbox or indeed even an emulated environment. So we should still fear the binary blob.

    Remember: update early, update often - no matter how painful that sounds.

  • source
  • hideshow 16 child comments
  • [–] 72 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    Remember: update early, update often - no matter how painful that sounds.

    Not anymore! Supply chain attacks have become so common that it's prudent to wait at least 7 days before updating to prevent installing malware from compromised update infrastructure.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 8 child comments
  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    So, what's the solution? Debian Stable?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Debian + unattended upgrades + modern package managers for non-system-installed software covers your bases very well.

    Debian packages are downstream enough from their sources that the packaging delay keeps you safe (and means the updates have had human eyes on them before they hit you). Unattended upgrades means you don’t have to worry about running the upgrades yourself.

    Pip, npm, and the other big package managers now also support dependency cooldowns on their recent releases, but uv and pnpm pioneered that and cover you for older release environments.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • Also I would heavily advocate for Debian Testing if you need a rolling release distro. It is less vetted than stable but is still more vetted than many other rolling release options and you can just stay on testing as versions change while getting features pretty fast compared to stable.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    I really like Arch because I have a very custom setup and like to try the newest things, but this really worries me as Arch-based user-friendly distros that use the same packages make the repos a bigger target.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    I read a hilarious article, probably 2 decades ago by now, where a guy decided to try running Windows viruses on Linux in Wine.

    If this really is a threat today, I would say that Wine has become a pretty damn impressive project. Here's the link in case anyone else wants to read it: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/05/01/26/219201/running-windows-viruses-under-linux

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    There’s never been an instance of widespread malware built with a dedicated ability to persist on a Linux host through Wine.

    It wouldn’t be hard at all for a hacker to manually wire up linux-specific malware on a computer once they had a RAT running in Wine, but there’s no credible risk of windows malware automatically installing β€œlinux viruses” at present.

  • source
  • parent
  • [+] 43 points 1 month ago (8 children)
  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    ...I left reddit a while ago...they paywalled downloading shit?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)
  • [–] 36 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    "Okay i'il look in to other drives"

    Wine is a flatpak

  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

    Hmmmmmm, maybe then the virus shouldn't use GTK dialogs for opening files and call open(3)? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    My linus virus trying to fuck up my disk on nixos (coreutils isn't in the path)

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Isn't your user data available in Wine on Z:\ though? I laughed at the meme but I'd still be worried info stealer malware or similar would have no problem grabbing the data it's looking for as Wine does no sandboxing at all.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Jokes on them, even when I ran windows my os wasn't on C, I think it was like E

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    doesn't every game have its own c_drive?

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Proton for some reason insists in mounting root on Z. Plain wine doesn't care. So I had to use firejail.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    This makes me miss r/shittyreactiongifs

  • source