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Infected games under Proton. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 5 months ago by cyborganism@lemmy.ca to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I was just wondering what would happen if I downloaded a game that was infected by a computer virus and ran it in Linux using Proton.

Has this happened to anyone? How would the virus behave? What files, connections or devices would it have access to? Could it be as damaging as running in in Windows?

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 8 points 5 months ago

When people talk about things like sandboxing, they are almost always talking about library dependencies and not any kind of security context

Uh. I don't think I can agree with you on this. Sure, Steam has a mini-Ubuntu distro, and there are a few packaging techniques to bundle libraries, but I'd say that that's much less-common of a topic of discussion than security context.

Wikipedia talks about security context:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_(computer_security)

The top hits on Kagi for "linux sandbox" are about security.

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