Autoplay considered harmful

[Evil Jay]

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 <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>   
>> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/15/BU47V0VOH.DTL&type=business
>> 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.
>
>