• BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    Exploit of vulnerabilities. Hackers continually try to break things. It could be a sketchy download, but also could just be a website you visit that sends certains packets to your PC that changes state of some other thing and then they inject the malware to monitor your passwords or banking session cookie or something.

    If you never use that system for critical stuff you are probably OK, but if that system gets infected then the other devices on your home network will be the next target.

    Might be worth trying bazziteOS with steam one day and adjusting Proton compatibility per game to see if you get all your titles working.

    Luckily my steam library is all working with Linux, but I don’t play triple A kernel anticheat games