until you realise that wine is virus compatible
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2025
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chmod +x virus
sudo ./virus
It uses powershellβ¦.
Meanwhile plenty of software recommends doing this:
curl https://totallysafe.example/install.sh | sudo bash
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?
exe malware: targets Wine
me: oh shi
lol i like how we pretend there's no linux viruses.
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.
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.
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...
forgot to add+ and most Linux malwares are targeting servers. Malwares that targeting casual Linux users are very niche.
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.
thanks for the clarify
Relevant:
this is why6 I use LibreWolf set to clear all cookies & history + a password manager :p
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
XKCD 1200
Malicious packages exist yanno, even in software stores.. Viruses should be the least of your worries
Well that depends. Package registries like pypi and npm? Certainly. Something like the Debian repositories? Much less likely
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.
But in that scene...
Gandalf is a fkn trojan
I'm so writing a virus to just sudo rm -fr /*
Itβs -rf and not the other way around you godless heathen
nice of you to remove the french language pack for them, makes for a lighter system!
What does adding fur real do?
It's for gen-alpha computers. Makes sure all them files are yeeted, no cap.
Sudo rm -fr βyt-nc
Thatβs a different command
Why delete the French language? What French people did to you?
sudo: command not found
You have no power here!
True chads use root account only without sudo installed
Now thatβs just mean
Don't forget --no-preserve-root
I don't think that applies since /* will just glob out to all the filenames in /
You're right, I missed that
Configuring WINE prefix...
Didn't the wannacry payload (yes, that one) actually work through wine? I remember the running joke was "Heh, finally something works in wine"
Just so the virus doesn't feel left out.
Virus after: -What is this place?
Also virus: This is not my house, this is not my beautiful wife
Also virus: ooh look! Thereβs the mythological Z:\ drive! Always wanted to explore one of these