On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Eduardo Romero <k3nsai@gmail.com> 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