Some slight regret

I have many non pirated games that do that, too.

To be fair, if it was actually malware it could easily have done it hidden and in the background with no need for it to open cmd

it opens automatically for programs without guis that forget to set the "please don't show cmd" flag. i made a program for my grandmother to automatically sort her photos and it would always flicker that damn window because i couldn't figure out haw to set the flag from Go :(
- Now, that's sweet
- go build "-ldflags -H=windowsgui"
  Or do you mean with exec?

I hope WINEPREFIX is thick enough for a condom.

Now say it with me, WINE IS MALWARE COMPATIBLE
- Run wine with sudo. Yolo
- Not if I don't give it access to my Linux files
I think wine maps at least your home directory into prefix, so your data would be in danger.
- yup, home (or was it root actually?) is commonly mapped to the Z: drive, and it's writeable too. Wine isn't meant to be a security layer.
There's a Bubblewrap wrapper for wine: https://github.com/hartwork/sandwine
Windows applications can still access the Linux functionality when running under Wine, though of course that has to have been purposefully coded in.
However you can run wine itself inside something like firejail to properly sandbox the whole thing - I have Lutris in my Linux gaming machine configured to do just that for all games by default (my firejail config even blocks networking).
- How do you configure that by default?

I dont pirate games, and I see them sneaky command windows opening and closing a bit. Mainly on startup

Same, on Windows 11. Not sure what causes it. Someone should make a utility that logs every time a cmd window was opened.
- You know you can check the actual windows logs right?
  Edit: you can also enable CMD logging, you don't need someone to write you a program

The fuck should I care? I already installed Windows entirely with informed consent.

The fact they are collecting telemetrics and are constantly monitoring them. My laptop sped up considerably when I debloated Windows.
- That's my point. If I'm already cool with Windows, what should I care about other, lesser, malware?

My windows is installed on separate ssd and snapshotted regularly, opening browser on windows without ad blocker probably is more dangerous.

Unless you have the other SSDs physically disconnected, you're still running the risk of having your other installations affected by ransomware.
- Probably, yeah, but I have exported snapshots and backups for such cases, and data itself is encrypted. So at worst a few hours lost. They can be easily disconnected i just never actually do it.
It would still need ti be an immutable install
Same, I just threw windows on a 1tb ssd and it does nothing but play pirated games. Go ahead and collect what you want lol
- yeah, that’s all good until your pwned pirate PC roots your router and printer and baby monitor, and your LAN becomes a DDoS source.

Malware installation tool crashed, because call not supported in Wine. Good.

Important: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wine#Prevent_Wine_from_creating_filetype_associations

They should really create a simple cli switch for that.

Lol Windows

Replace with a shell window
- Malware would explicitly have to be executing a terminal for a window to popup. They can just call a shell directly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware
- Ah yes, for windows to suck, Linux would have to be invulnerable to any issue

Amd over clocking tool thing does that and I hate it

Fortunately, ours is a world in which virustotal.com exists.

Thats why you virtualize. I have a program that I must use from time to time because of legacy issues, and much content in their propietary format. The solution was either pay out the wazoo for accesing my own content a few times a month, or arrr it. A download, and a VM does the trick. And bonus, I can use it in Linux, too.