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1984@lemmy.today 10 months agoNo it would infect wine, not Linux.
Anyway I can see your point, but just in case the OP wants to try a different operating system where you don’t have these problems, it’s good to know about Linux.
There are virus scanners for it, sure, but they are hardly used outside of enterprise environments and there almost no virus writers targeting Linux. It’s a different world.
Spider89@lemmy.world 10 months ago
WINE isn’t a container, it will hijack your data.
1984@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Of course it’s not a container but wine is windows running in Linux. So wine will be infected, which means your windows apps may be infected also.
crazyroostereye@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Wine = Wine is not an Emulator It’s a compatibility layer. Your files are still fully visible to the Malware so if it is trying for example to encrypt all of them it can. If it targets smth like System32 then you would be safe since that would only affect wine and apps running under it. So depends on the Type of Malware.
1984@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Thanks, that’s the correct term.