Is it possible to get a virus from a windows machine on my local network or from an infected game installed in Wine?
I do not have a ~/.wine directory and do not run anything Wine-related as root. I only use PlayOnLinux to run Wine games.
I bought an older game for my daughter for Christmas because she loves horses more than anything.
This game is meant for Window XP and I wanted to test it in my Ubuntu system for fun to see if it will work in PlayOnLinux. (It works flawlessly.)
I then installed it on her Windows machine just to see the difference in performance and low and behold, Avast flagged it (an executable from the disc - not the game install files) as a virus. Long story short is several online virus scanners flagged the game engine's .exe as a rootkit virus. (sourced from original disc)
Here is a post I made on Reddit in r/linux4noobs:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/a73hes/new_user_has_question_about_viruses/
If someone can read through the post and replies in full I would be ecstatic. I really hope this is a false positive (and that it wont hurt our Ubuntu systems) Because she has been begging for this super rare game for months and I just got it off of eBay.
Here is some interesting data I linked in a reply
1 point · 5 hours ago · edited 5 hours ago
I think this is the link (executable from SS:Winter Riders Disc)
Free Automated Malware Analysis Service - powered by Falcon Sandbox
I'm uploading the one from the MMO next
Edit:
Here is the MMO game's .exe
Free Automated Malware Analysis Service - powered by Falcon Sandbox
Thank you so much for your time and efforts.