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For those who are wondering, yes, Wine is malware compatible so be careful about the EXEs you run!

https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#Is_Wine_malware-compatible.3F

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[–] Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This happened to me not long ago when I found a monero miner running on my laptop. Being a highly technical person, I feel unbounded shame.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How did you figure out it was running? How did you confirm? Teach me your methods

Please

[–] Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It was pretty easy to spot in htop since it had really high CPU usage. Plus, the command line args it launched with included the word "Monero" multiple times, so that was a bit of a giveaway haha

[–] havokdj@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was it still through WINE? I'd feel bad for the miner as well as it likely couldn't have done the MSR mod so low hashrate lol.

[–] Kittenstix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Feeling bad that a scammer couldn't scam hard enough is hilarious. Only in a Linux forum.

[–] havokdj@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Tbf, if you get an OOTB distro infected, that is most definitely user error