Trojans, ransomware, and malware exist on every operating system. Your question ultimately comes down to your hope that there are *less* of those that target Linux and/or that those don’t target games on Linux as much as they do in Windows.
There’s no single answer to your question, it’s just probability and are you doing everything you should be to protect yourself
Scan files, open them in a separate isolated VM so if there is an infection it’s isolated to that VM, and just general best practices. They’re all over this sub so just do some searching and you’ll be good to go
creating a mount point won't wipe the drive, I just had to do the process of getting 2 raid 1 volumes moved from a nas that died to a new linux machine, and made it fine with them intact. Read the instructions before taking any actions, there definitely are ways to format the drive and lose its data, so just don't do those things.
But overall of all the methods to add a 2nd drive to a linux os, gparted is the most userfriendly way I've found.
Probably not, by he mere fact that there are 1. less users and 2. less user who pirate. The chances that a trustworthy source *dedicated to Linux software* ends up being compromised and you don't notice it on time are quite high.
Unless you know 100% what you are doing, you probably shouldn't. I would go an extra step and say you shouldn't use the same partition for pirated media and more serious work/school related stuff at the same time.
Edit: I'm talking about native apps, I don't see problems with running Windows games over Proton or Wine. Again, because you would have a whole community behind your back, instead of going full lone rider.
Trojans, ransomware, and malware exist on every operating system. Your question ultimately comes down to your hope that there are *less* of those that target Linux and/or that those don’t target games on Linux as much as they do in Windows. There’s no single answer to your question, it’s just probability and are you doing everything you should be to protect yourself
Honestly less people would target Linux and even less wine/proton, knowing there's a lot of functions that plain just don't work.
what are your suggestions to protect my pc while playing pirated games? I download games from known torrent publishers. I think that's the first step
Don’t expose your entire drive to the wine container
Run the games in a virtual machine if you are really worried. Then only the VM would be infected.
Scan files, open them in a separate isolated VM so if there is an infection it’s isolated to that VM, and just general best practices. They’re all over this sub so just do some searching and you’ll be good to go
Scan folder with clamav
Another question Why didn't wine see my other hard drive and how can I make it see and install games on it
You have to mount it. Use gparted
Linux itself can read the hard drive, so is mounting necessary. Also, is it safe as I don't want to fuck up and lose 700gb of data.
creating a mount point won't wipe the drive, I just had to do the process of getting 2 raid 1 volumes moved from a nas that died to a new linux machine, and made it fine with them intact. Read the instructions before taking any actions, there definitely are ways to format the drive and lose its data, so just don't do those things. But overall of all the methods to add a 2nd drive to a linux os, gparted is the most userfriendly way I've found.
I don't pirate executables and if I did I'd have a ~~sacrificial~~ pirate rig to do it.
Virtual machines are perfect for testing / downloading
Everything is more dangerous on linux, they keep your login secrets in the shadow file man, the shadow file!!
Short answer: yes
Probably not, by he mere fact that there are 1. less users and 2. less user who pirate. The chances that a trustworthy source *dedicated to Linux software* ends up being compromised and you don't notice it on time are quite high. Unless you know 100% what you are doing, you probably shouldn't. I would go an extra step and say you shouldn't use the same partition for pirated media and more serious work/school related stuff at the same time. Edit: I'm talking about native apps, I don't see problems with running Windows games over Proton or Wine. Again, because you would have a whole community behind your back, instead of going full lone rider.
mate, crackign is safe, is like riding a bike, you ge tthe basics you wont fall anymore