What prevents malicious programs from writing this registry key on their own?
On 2/11/07, Chris Robinson chris.kcat@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday 11 February 2007 06:49:58 pm richardvoigt@gmail.com wrote:
This sounds almost perfect.
What would stop the program from adding the registry key itself when placing the item in the startup folder, or wherever else?
I think the counterpoint raised by James Hawkins would be adequately addressed by adding a winecfg option as follows:
Sounds like it's just asking if it should ask.
I'm not really sure what you could do as a user that a program couldn't just override and do itself. Besides, users might not know whether what's being installed into an auto-start key/folder is necessary, deny it for "safety concerns", and have a broken installation.