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    [–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 133 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
    Configuring WINE prefix...
    
    [–] db2@lemmy.world 55 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Just so the virus doesn't feel left out.

    [–] muhyb@programming.dev 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Virus after: -What is this place?

    [–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Also virus: This is not my house, this is not my beautiful wife

    [–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Also virus: ooh look! There’s the mythological Z:\ drive! Always wanted to explore one of these

    [–] renzev@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

    Didn't the wannacry payload (yes, that one) actually work through wine? I remember the running joke was "Heh, finally something works in wine"

    [–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 102 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
    [–] nixigaj@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago
    [–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

    If they can take my unlocked device by force, they can probably also break my fingers to coerce me to unlock it See also: https://xkcd.com/538/

    Randall is right in pointing out you need to consider your attack vectors, but this doesn't mean you shouldn't take reasonable precautions

    Most people are more likely to run into the type of attack OP references than someone who can break LUKS encryption stealing their device

    [–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 3 points 2 weeks ago

    this is why6 I use LibreWolf set to clear all cookies & history + a password manager :p

    [–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 62 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

    Tell that to the monero miner I had to nuke when I took over one of my clients' legacy systems. Thing was a literal hydra, detonation was the only option. Was on CentOS 5, but it was written to be POSIX compliant.

    [–] MTK@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Stop with this stupid meme, it was false when it started and it is much more false now.

    Linux has plenty of viruses, windows viruses are still functional under wine, and there are still the entire phishing and scam world.

    [–] coldaf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    You have a point. But Linux Out of the Box always immune to any Windows virus like the meme says. And average Linux guy would still have protections on. But yeah, having a shield dont mean we wont ever get hit.

    [–] MTK@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

    The meme does not mention Windows. What protections does the average Linux user has? If you do a basic setup of most desktop distors the only protection you have is password input for sudo...

    [–] coldaf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    forgot to add+ and most Linux malwares are targeting servers. Malwares that targeting casual Linux users are very niche.

    [–] MTK@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

    What does "targeting servers" mean for the end result? And I can tell you that most of these malware that target servers will work just fine on a desktop distro and will still do the same damage.

    [–] azha@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago

    thanks for the clarify

    [–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 37 points 2 weeks ago

    lol i like how we pretend there's no linux viruses.

    [–] lowleveldata@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    I'm so writing a virus to just sudo rm -fr /*

    [–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Don't forget --no-preserve-root

    [–] rbos@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    I don't think that applies since /* will just glob out to all the filenames in /

    [–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

    You're right, I missed that

    [–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 weeks ago

    nice of you to remove the french language pack for them, makes for a lighter system!

    [–] Celediel@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    sudo: command not found

    You have no power here!

    [–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

    True chads use root account only without sudo installed

    [–] brap@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

    Now that’s just mean

    [–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

    It’s -rf and not the other way around you godless heathen

    [–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    What does adding fur real do?

    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    It's for gen-alpha computers. Makes sure all them files are yeeted, no cap.

    [–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Sudo rm -fr β€”yt-nc

    That’s a different command

    [–] Cris16228@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

    Why delete the French language? What French people did to you?

    [–] electro1@infosec.pub 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Malicious packages exist yanno, even in software stores.. Viruses should be the least of your worries

    [–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 2 weeks ago

    Well that depends. Package registries like pypi and npm? Certainly. Something like the Debian repositories? Much less likely

    [–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 weeks ago

    exe malware: targets Wine

    me: oh shi

    [–] Cyclist@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
    [–] Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Gandalf is a fkn trojan

    [–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 8 points 2 weeks ago

    Meanwhile plenty of software recommends doing this:

    curl https://totallysafe.example/install.sh | sudo bash
    
    [–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago
    chmod +x virus
    sudo ./virus
    
    [–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    You're one Malware away from it reading z: and taking all your Firefox passwords

    That's why we disable it and move everything that the program needs access to manually into the prefix, right?

    [–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

    until you realise that wine is virus compatible

    [–] SlyCooperKing@quokk.au 1 points 2 weeks ago

    It uses powershell….