Yet another reminder to sandbox your apps people, otherwise every app/mod u install will always be a risk and an AV should never be your main defense, https://sandboxie-plus.com/ on windows is incredibly simply to use, and on linux just install the prismlauncher flatpak and double-check its permissions via the flatseal app.
Oh wow, I haven’t heard about Sandboxie in a long while. I tried using it years ago, but I didn’t understand the documentation and gave up. Maybe I should try it out again sometime.
I personally like flatpaks, but sometimes even with Flatseal it’s hard to figure out which permissions are needed for things to work. (For example, I tried making flatpak Calibre open PDFs using another flatpak program, but I never got that working.)
Sandboxing is always a good idea, but depending on what game you play, it might not help, unless you mean sandboxing the entire game.
Take World of Warcraft for example. I don’t use any addon manager, I manually install addons tho I do download them from CurseForge.
They compromised the accounts of developers, so even if you don’t use any app to manage your addons, you’re still at risk because malicious code could be inside the addons themselves. WoW addons are not mentioned in this specific case, but they (potentially) are at risk as well, it wouldn’t be the first time (not the last either).
Not sure it’s possible to sandbox WoW addons, they’re source code and they’re compiled by the WoW client when loaded, you should sandbox the entirety of WoW but I have no idea what impact it has on the gaming experience, nor if it’s feasible at all.
You can fairly easily sandbox a full game, for example on linux im running steam flatpak version which is sandboxed and can play any game from steam. steam has certain permissions it can operate within and anything launched from steam has those same restrictions, basically means it cannot touch my home folder. Now, the flatpak sandbox isn’t 100% great and there are some exploits to escape it, but im assuming most malware is not gonna be targeting flatpak specifically so probably fairly safe
Sandboxie automatically opens any processes/dependencies the sandboxed app opens, under the same sandbox, so it should be fine. The entire game will be sandboxed. The game still runs smoothly on my machine regardless of the sandbox as well.
Yet another reminder to sandbox your apps people, otherwise every app/mod u install will always be a risk and an AV should never be your main defense, https://sandboxie-plus.com/ on windows is incredibly simply to use, and on linux just install the prismlauncher flatpak and double-check its permissions via the flatseal app.
Oh wow, I haven’t heard about Sandboxie in a long while. I tried using it years ago, but I didn’t understand the documentation and gave up. Maybe I should try it out again sometime.
I personally like flatpaks, but sometimes even with Flatseal it’s hard to figure out which permissions are needed for things to work. (For example, I tried making flatpak Calibre open PDFs using another flatpak program, but I never got that working.)
Sandboxing is always a good idea, but depending on what game you play, it might not help, unless you mean sandboxing the entire game.
Take World of Warcraft for example. I don’t use any addon manager, I manually install addons tho I do download them from CurseForge.
They compromised the accounts of developers, so even if you don’t use any app to manage your addons, you’re still at risk because malicious code could be inside the addons themselves. WoW addons are not mentioned in this specific case, but they (potentially) are at risk as well, it wouldn’t be the first time (not the last either).
Not sure it’s possible to sandbox WoW addons, they’re source code and they’re compiled by the WoW client when loaded, you should sandbox the entirety of WoW but I have no idea what impact it has on the gaming experience, nor if it’s feasible at all.
You can fairly easily sandbox a full game, for example on linux im running steam flatpak version which is sandboxed and can play any game from steam. steam has certain permissions it can operate within and anything launched from steam has those same restrictions, basically means it cannot touch my home folder. Now, the flatpak sandbox isn’t 100% great and there are some exploits to escape it, but im assuming most malware is not gonna be targeting flatpak specifically so probably fairly safe
Sandboxie automatically opens any processes/dependencies the sandboxed app opens, under the same sandbox, so it should be fine. The entire game will be sandboxed. The game still runs smoothly on my machine regardless of the sandbox as well.