Say, you downloaded a pirated game that happened to be malicious, and you run it on linux using compatibility layers like WINE/Proton, does your linux installation get infected?
Say, you downloaded a pirated game that happened to be malicious, and you run it on linux using compatibility layers like WINE/Proton, does your linux installation get infected?
That’s not true. By default the host filesystem is available in Wine. And even if this feature is disabled there are no active safeguards in Wine to prevent access.
Only Linux file permissions prevent access to Linux system files. But everything your user has access to can be tampered with.
Ransomware is incredibly common and designed to encrypt everything it can touch.