On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 07:11:53PM -0500, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: WINE virus thing > Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 22:33:29 +0100 (MET) > From: Marcel Partap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dear Dimitrie, > I am not on the mailing list for wine so please redirect this to the list, > thank you very much. > > I've read the Wine weekly news and would like to help out a bit. > About that security thingie and the problem that some apps need manual > parameters or something (the user has to do more than click-click) I would > recommend following solution: > Most Nintendo 64 Emulators use INI-files, in which for each game (ROM Image) > the name and shit is listed and the best options specifically for this game. > I would recommend to do it exactly like this in WINE: a Application database > file with weekly updates (like Antivirus definitions) which contains the > names and file attributes of the (tested) application (MD5??!) and eventually > the parameters necessary to run the program. Wine could then have a secure > mode (turned on by default) in which only applications from the DB (MD5!) > can be run and an unsecure mode in which it will run any EXE. > This would solve multiple problems at once:
> ... The database would be huge and a support nightmare, since just everyone would be asking to add md5sums. And they change with every service pack, every subrelease.... Ciao, Marcus
