On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:11:20 +0100 Martin Hinner martin@hinner.info wrote:
The problem is that some (almost all?) distributions simply execute .exe file when you click on it. I was amazed when testing JTAGTest on Linux! This is in my opinion quite big issue as ordinary users do not have problem clicking on "New folder.exe" on their flashdisk etc. It's good that wine is so compatible that it runs even viruses, but I think there should be some (optional) protection. The biggest problem seem to be removable media, in many distributions mounted under /mnt or /media. Please think about this twice before writing "problem is in Microsoft not in Wine", "it's not a bug but feature", etc. It's too childish IMO.
Why not make Wine honor the noexe flag on the mount?