As in title. What’s your experience with it? If something isn’t executable, then it has to exploit vulnerability in order to run anything malicious. But does it happen often with mp4, mkv and other files like mp3 or epub?
I assume that if I use updated linux, then I’m mostly safe?
If wine installed, there is a big chance that the exe can be started by simply doubleckicking on it. A lot of windows programs can run in wine without any specific setup, e.g. a basic crypto miner.
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Its mostly harmless. Here is a paper from 2019
Curious if those percentages are still true, Windows compatability has improved a lot in the past 4 years.
Give it a go