Re: wine autorun utility

[Vitaliy Margolen]

Thursday, June 29, 2006, 7:37:16 PM, William Knop wrote:
> On Jun 29, 2006, at 8:59 PM, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> > Thursday, June 29, 2006, 12:02:38 PM, William Knop wrote:
> > > Having the ability to autorun cds is most definitely not a  
> > > misfeature.
> >
> > Of course it's not. It's the perfect means of distributing trojans,  
> > backdoors,
> > rootkits and other very useful software an every CD, including DVDs  
> > and music
> > CDs.
> If your assuming said media is compromised in such a way, requiring  
> the user to manually run the executable will not protect him. The  
> fact is, most media is not compromised. Software publishers ensure  
> they are not. Most windows users can trust their software publishers.

That's what SONY been telling all along...

Vitaliy