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
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.
Proton does not protect you from harm. It’s not a sandbox.
what about bazzite set to immutable?
That does not stop things from stealing your data.
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.
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
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.
Why wouldn’t they? Linux is gaining market share.
Yeah, it’s slowly gaining market share, but it’s still a minuscule size of the user base