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Antiviruses? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago by ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I know that Linux is more secure than Windows and normally doesn't need an antivirus, but know myself I'm gonna end up downloading something at some point from somewhere on the internet, and it would be good to be prepared. So, which antivirus would you recommend for Linux (Mint specifically) just to double up on security?

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[–] CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wine is not an emulator. It's not sandboxed either. If you can do it as a user, a program running in wine can do it too.

There's nothing stopping a piece of malware from crawling your disk for sensitive information, or encrypting your files for ransom.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If you run it through something like bottles offer a bit of protection in that respect?

[–] CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't think so. Isn't bottles just an easier way to manage wine prefixes? If so, it doesn't do anything to hide your Linux system from the executable.

Wine prefixes are not sandboxes. They are a way to separate the windows-level configuration for different programs (eg env vars, or drivers, etc).

Wine is a translation layer between a compiled windows binary and your Linux syscalls/libraries/device drivers/etc, nothing more.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 8 minutes ago

On the bottles website, it says that the bottles are sandboxes. It has a full subsystem container for each program that is isolated from the main system (according to them I guess).