• Norgur
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    -231 year ago

    Well, the difference is that you can eradicate the Malware for Wine by doing a quick sudo apt-get purge wine && apt-get install wine and be done with it.

    • @Sh1nyM3t4l4ss
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      421 year ago

      That wouldn’t remove the Wine prefix, i. e. the virtual C:\ drive where the virus most likely lives. Uninstalling Wine wouldn’t do shit since it only removes files that your user (and thus wine) can’t even write to, and if a virus manages to get around that you have bigger problems.

      • @Sh1nyM3t4l4ss
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        31 year ago

        I don’t use Wine so I’m really not sure if this would be prevented

        It is not prevented. In fact I saw a video where someone removed the Z:\ drive for wine (the path that gives windows apps access to the whole Linux rootfs) and then ran Wannacry, and it was somehow still able to encrypt all writable folders on the system.