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What do you mean by safe?
by Redoubts 11y ago
What do you mean by safe?
- chrisper 11y agoWell, in Windows if you have an Antivirus you will get at least some notification that something is suspicious. But in Wine you don't have an Antivirus. I am just not sure about the worst case scenario.
- donbox 11y agoI wonder if Wine ever led a windows virus to infect a linux installation
- terminalcommand 11y agoYes, viruses in Wine actually happened. That is the reason I'm still dependent on VMs. I don't want to compromise my main OS. For further information: http://askubuntu.com/questions/562388/do-wine-viruses-only-work-while-wine-is-running http://askubuntu.com/questions/562388/do-wine-viruses-only-w...
- chrisper 11y agoI guess if I only use it for 1 Game on Steam I will be fine. The game doesn't work in a VM.
- skrowl 11y agoI've never heard of anypony getting malware delivered to them by Steam