On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Eduardo Romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some users expressed concern in the capabilities of the Wine package to > run .exe or autorun files by default, and sometimes this without asking > permission from the user. This can be stopped, the solution can be > taking this line: > MimeType=application/x-ms-dos-executable;application/x-msdos-program;application/x-msdownload; > out of the wine.desktop file. > > And adding a message telling the user that in order to enable file > association with wine the have to issue the following command as root: > echo > "MimeType=application/x-ms-dos-executable;application/x-msdos-program;application/x-msdownload;" > >> /usr/share/applications/wine.desktop > > Thanks goes to trivialstuff for looking into this, I didn't had the time > to. > > The discussion has been going on here: > http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=54162 > > I will appreciate your suggestions guys. > > Thanks > > Eduardo "kensai" Romero > >
umm as I understand a user still has to click the file for it to be executed via wine? I don't see any problem there. If someone is affraid to click a .exe file, then either they should remove the file association on their local machine or remove wine altogether (btw I seriously doubt that any virus will do harm when executed via wine (or has it become that good?)). I suggest to keep it as is (as was intended upstream), maybe adding a message saying what to do to disable the file association. Ronald
