There are a lot of Windows viruses and I’m not sure of the default permissions for wine and how much wine puts things in a container. Would it be easy for a Windows virus to escape WINE?

Why do you think it’s a psyop?

Some of this is vague. Is there a reason you aren’t sharing the name of the DLL or the software involved? I can’t tell if you downloaded a program that was infected and used the program in WINE or if you are saying WINE itself was infected.

Is this an account that’s an alt account and you’re normally a poster or are you a lurker? It’s really unusual to have only 1 post on lemmy.

If this is real, can you please post the name of the DLL? I am also surprised you aren’t spending more time trying to get your data back. Unless they wiped it many times, data is often recoverable, and sometimes even if it’s wiped several times. That’s what I’d be prioritizing getting back. Do you not have any other backups of your files anywhere?

I really wish I knew if the study authors were religious.

I have no idea if this is sloppy science with benevolent intentions (everyone makes mistakes) or religious devotion masquerading as science.