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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 31 2025, @03:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 31 2025, @03:01AM (#1422847)

    Exactly so. WINE even provides better compatibility than Windows for things like you mention. Such is the use case for WINE on WSL. However, that is the rhetorical point made. Should you scan Windows executables for Windows viruses run on WINE? The answer is "yes" if you are worried about accidentally running one and it causing problems with your system.

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