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    My PC is hacked (lemmy.world)
    submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    I just received a call from an indian microsoft technician. He informed me that my PC is sending a ton of error messages to microsoft. Most likely it has been hacked, and he would help me by remoting in and fixing the problem for me. I just wonder... Is it my PopOs or my Manjaro PC that sends all this info to microsoft?

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    [–] [email protected] 119 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    All that malware should be running without problems. Wine's gotten pretty good by now.

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

    Ah yes, I remember back in the day we had to build WINE with unofficial patches to get malware to work. How times have changed.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    But how's Siddhartha going to find the Event Viewer!?

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Can someone confirm if syskeying works on Wine?

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Proper malware often still doesn't run. Cheap executables to encrypt your stuff and so on the other hand work well.

    Which is why wine should be run as its own unpriviledged user...

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    I still chuckle about the fact that WannaCry the ransomware software has a WineHQ entry