• somedaysoon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t use Wine so I’m really not sure if this would be prevented, but if Wine has read/write file access and the virus is ransomware and encrypts your files then re-installing it really wouldn’t help you.

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      1 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.