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windows virus from the game played through proton on linux finding itself on an empty c drive
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spacegoat lemmy.world spacegoat@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-28
#52 · Quote Reply

Thank you Lemmy devs for just allowing to download videos and images. Fuck reddit
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/home/pineapplelover lemmy.dbzer0.com pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-30
#53 · Quote Reply
spacegoat wrote:
Thank you Lemmy devs for just allowing to download videos and images. Fuck reddit

New user?
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Speiser0 feddit.org Speiser0@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-27
#54 · Quote Reply
dgdft wrote:
Fair enough! But I can tell you as a cybersecurity expert that you’d have a hard time finding a way to get any sort of remote execution from user-generated content on any major site, much less an exploitable browser sandbox escape.

I think web browser exploits wouldn't be an issue on ubuntu anyways, as major web browsers do get regular upgrades there (or are not even installed via apt but snap nowadays). Also web browsers use sandboxes. I'm more worried about users downloading any kind of content and interacting with it via more niche software, like image viewers (though with glycin they nowadays also do sandboxing).
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SilverJeyJey lemmy.world SilverJeyJey@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-10-06
#55 · Quote Reply
spacegoat wrote:
Thank you Lemmy devs for just allowing to download videos and images. Fuck reddit

Reddit is garbage
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Magnum, P.I. infosec.pub Magnum@infosec.pub
Joined: 2025-12-31
#56 · Quote Reply
/home/pineapplelover wrote:
New user?

Well the account itself is over 3 years old? Are you a new user?
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Xenny lemmy.world Xenny@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-29
#57 · Quote Reply
spacegoat wrote:
Thank you Lemmy devs for just allowing to download videos and images. Fuck reddit

...I left reddit a while ago...they paywalled downloading shit?
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Cosmonaut_Collin lemmy.world Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-10
#58 · Quote Reply
Big Baby Thor wrote:
Here's a careful reminder that Linux viruses can come in Windows executables. When it comes to hacking in the modern day it's all about escaping the box - whether that box is a container, a VM, a sandbox or indeed even an emulated environment. So we should still fear the binary blob. Remember: update early, update often - no matter how painful that sounds.

We need to get proton for templeos so we can be safe.
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mirshafie europe.pub mirshafie@europe.pub
Joined: 2025-11-07
#59 · Quote Reply
SilverJeyJey wrote:
Reddit is garbage

Reddit is trash
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Natanael infosec.pub Natanael@infosec.pub
Joined: 2025-01-18
#60 · Quote Reply
AliOski wrote:
This is pure gold

https://source.android.com/docs/core/runtime/zygote
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Natanael infosec.pub Natanael@infosec.pub
Joined: 2025-01-18
#61 · Quote Reply
nroth wrote:
So, what's the solution? Debian Stable?

Hardened systems with hardware enforced isolation (virtualization and stuff)
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/home/pineapplelover lemmy.dbzer0.com pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-30
#62 · Quote Reply
Magnum, P.I. wrote:
Well the account itself is over 3 years old? Are you a new user?

Oh I think we migrated around similar times then (I'm a lemm.ee refugee). I thought you were surprised that photos and videos were available to download when this wasn't a recent lemmy change
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Billegh lemmy.world bhamlin@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#63 · Quote Reply
Cosmonaut_Collin wrote:
We need to get proton for templeos so we can be safe.

Well, I don't t want to be the one doing the porting to holyc
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programmerlexi sh.itjust.works programmerlexi@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-08-29
#64 · Quote Reply
Xenny wrote:
...I left reddit a while ago...they paywalled downloading shit?

Not paywalled, just straight up preventing it, which they have been doing for years now. But yt-dlp still works for downloading from reddit, if so desired.
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AliOski feddit.nl AliOski@feddit.nl
Joined: 2023-07-03
#65 · (edited) Quote Reply
captainlezbian wrote:
Jokes on them, even when I ran windows my os wasn't on C, I think it was like E
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AliOski feddit.nl AliOski@feddit.nl
Joined: 2023-07-03
#66 · Quote Reply
MrSoup wrote:
Proton for some reason insists in mounting root on Z. Plain wine doesn't care. So I had to use firejail.

Well, how else do you want to achieve 100% compatibility? Don't discriminate the viruses like that!
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Zoot reddthat.com Zoot@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-07-01
#67 · Quote Reply
capital5 wrote:
I read a hilarious article, probably 2 decades ago by now, where a guy decided to try running Windows viruses on Linux in Wine. If this really is a threat today, I would say that Wine has become a pretty damn impressive project. Here's the link in case anyone else wants to read it: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/05/01/26/219201/running-windows-viruses-under-linux

Sadly newsforge (the site linked in the above article) no longer hosts said article. Sounded like a fun read!
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SilverJeyJey lemmy.world SilverJeyJey@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-10-06
#68 · Quote Reply
Xenny wrote:
...I left reddit a while ago...they paywalled downloading shit?

I prefer reddit UI but the community is annoying asf. No one has the mental capacity to discuss and the emotional control of a toddler.
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j5906 feddit.org j5906@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-03-30
#69 · Quote Reply
capital5 wrote:
I read a hilarious article, probably 2 decades ago by now, where a guy decided to try running Windows viruses on Linux in Wine. If this really is a threat today, I would say that Wine has become a pretty damn impressive project. Here's the link in case anyone else wants to read it: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/05/01/26/219201/running-windows-viruses-under-linux

comments are peak 2005
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