Re: Malware on Wine review

[Dan Kegel]

Ben Klein  wrote:
> > http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2009/02/23/running-windows-...
> >
> > "Do not set the file association for Windows executables with Wine.
> > This would enable running Windows executables in Wine by simply double
> > clicking them."
> >
> > I saw a patch floating by to turn this on by default recently.  Maybe
> > we should make it off by default, but easy to turn on...?
>
> This would annoy all the people that the association targets. We can
> either make it easy to run all Windows apps (malware and legit) via
> file manager, or none at all.

Yes, exactly.  The default should be off, and it should be easy to
turn on.
- Dan