Reply to post: Doesn't seem very viable

Yes, of course there's now malware for Windows Subsystem for Linux

DrXym

Doesn't seem very viable

Most people using WSL will do so with a dist like Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora Core. They're not going to be installing or running random binaries so from that point alone the threat is quite low. And let's say they did do that and this binary was able to exploit their machine. How is that any worse than someone running an untrusted Windows binary?

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