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Valve removes free horror game from Steam after players discover it contains malware that steals your data (www.pcguide.com)
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[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Is it applicable to Proton in some way? I'm guilty of using less popular and thus less veried cracked software with it so I'd like some level of protection. Can I separately write it in some config file?

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 hour ago

Proton is just Wine with some modifications. You can use the same sandboxing methods you would use with Wine.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

Firejail runs apps in a sandbox.

And you can make a separate non-root desktop profile to run it in so even if it somehow escapes containment it can't run sudo commands or steal your main login's data.