• Paragone@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Many years ago, it was discovered that Wine could run Windows viruses/worms/malware just fine, thank you very much…

    “Sandboxing”, it isn’t.

    It runs with all the privileges of the user running the app, iirc.

    • rollingflower@lemmy.kde.social
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      7 months ago

      Thats why you should only use flatpakked wine wrappers like Bottles. Bottles has no filesystem permissions at all, everything uses portals. So I suppose (apart from maybe privileged syscalls?) Viruses would be harmless