smpl@discuss.tchncs.detoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Anyone who downloaded the GOG Baldur's Gate 3 release from 1337x, scan with Malwarebytes asap!English
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1 year agoWhy would you run linux.exe from Linux?
Why would you run linux.exe from Linux?
My guess is that it’s an instance of some federated platform talking to lemmy, which has once been used to serve malware by one of its users. AFAIK lemmy only fetch avatars directly from instances, but it’s a privacy nightmare which, admittedly easy to say for one who doesn’t pay for storage space, should be mitigated with a caching mediaproxy.
It’ll be easier than running uncracked games. It’s difficult to say how well your games will run in general.