Stefan Dösinger wrote:
Am Samstag 10 Februar 2007 05:20 schrieb Vitaliy Margolen:
Misha Koshelev wrote:
Hi,
As you all may have noticed, I have been making quite a few patches within the last two weeks (or at least quite a few when compared to zero before then) because I had figured out that the Vector NTI program that is quite important in molecular biologThis patch makes sure that wine will start items in the StartUp folder
IMHO this should not be fixed.
I've seen lots and lots of malicious programs using this mechanism to start themselves. And even worse if installer uses this to restart itself. That means this installer might not work most of the time on windows.
Malicious programs can also write themselves to HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Run, a key that wineboot reads. So I do not see any advantage in implementing the Run key, but not the autostart folder.
I second that opinion. I do computer tech support (ie getting viruses and spy/malware off of windows) at my university and if there's a case for not implementing one of those two run at boot features, disabling the Run key would be the stronger since most, if not all malicious programs now use the run registry location as opposed to the Startup folder.
It really comes down to the amount of power a user should have. Maybe require a gksu whenever an app tries to write something to that folder or that registry location?
/2cents
-Dave