Asking for a friend, how is gaming on linux with pirated games and the whole virus situation? About a decade ago I read that viruses could break out of the VM sandbox.
To me, that is quite funny: the windows emulation is now so good, even the windows viruses can run on linux! Yay!
Jokes aside, it all depends. There are ways to sandbox things, and every now and then some clever kid figures out how to break out of sandboxes. A lot of the perceived linux security comes from the fact that most virus authors target the biggest chunk of the market, windows pcs. Most bang for the buck.
Asking for a friend, how is gaming on linux with pirated games and the whole virus situation? About a decade ago I read that viruses could break out of the VM sandbox.
Assuming you installed a virus through wine/proton, it’s entirely possible for it execute if it has what it needs to run from the wine prefix.
Whether or not it can do any real damage depends on the virus, but there’s nothing stopping it from getting access to anything your user can.
To me, that is quite funny: the windows emulation is now so good, even the windows viruses can run on linux! Yay!
Jokes aside, it all depends. There are ways to sandbox things, and every now and then some clever kid figures out how to break out of sandboxes. A lot of the perceived linux security comes from the fact that most virus authors target the biggest chunk of the market, windows pcs. Most bang for the buck.