On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2009/02/23/running-windows-... is an interesting report; all the malware he tried ran to at least some extent on wine.
One interesting bit of advice he gives at the end is
"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...?
That patch, which I wrote, works a differently than you describe.
It generates an association from a file extension, to open with the handler for its ProgID currently in the registry.
So it allows .txt to open with Notepad and .dev to open with Dev-C++. It does not make Wine open a new .exe by default - at least, that was not the intention.
Windows executables already run in Wine when you double click on them - that's tools/wine.desktop doing it's job.
Damjan