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Question about Antivirus
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this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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Servers are primarily running Linux for decades. So any security through obscurity would be gone for as long, if it even existed ever...
The more primitive the better the chances. And there are some really primitive cases of ransonware perfectly happy with running through Wine and encrypting your files. So limiting Wine's file access (or better running it as a separate unpriviledged user with no access to anything but your games) is always a good idea.