Vista (and I think XP too) ask whether you want to start the Autorun program, or do a few other actions (open explorer, copy disk, etc).
Remco
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From: Evil Jay wine@eternaldusk.com To: Steven Edwards winehacker@gmail.com Cc: wine-devel wine-devel@winehq.org; Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 5:44:15 PM Subject: Re: Autoplay considered harmful
The purist in me says that WINE should not improve on Windows - it should behave the same way, warts and all. If I had a vote, I'd vote to enable it by default, but give the user an easy way to disable it in winecfg. (And I'd immediately disable it the first time I ran Winecfg!)
But, whatever you guys decide to do is cool - as long as you keep cranking out this great package! :)
-Jesse
Steven Edwards wrote:
On Feb 16, 2008 8:58 AM, Dan Kegel wrote:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/15/BU47V0VOH.DTL&am...
says that USB devices are being sold with infected autorun apps. "If you plug in, you're already infected,"
I'd say that's a pretty good argument for not supporting autoplay...
I was actually thinking about this today. The right method would be to use HAL notification events to prompt the user if they want to autorun when sticking a new cdrom in. There could even be warning text in the dialog so that if it pops up with other device insertion, the user would know that it could be a virus.
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