autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

Christian Gmeiner christian.gmeiner at gmail.com
Fri Jan 11 11:10:38 CST 2008


2008/1/11, Marcus Meissner <meissner at suse.de>:
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:36:04PM +0100, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> > This is release 0.9.53 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on
> Unix.
> >
> > What's new in this release:
> >   - RunOnce and Run entries now executed on startup.
>
> This will probably give some fallout ;)
>
> I wanted to write earlier, but did forget about it over the last
> days.
>
> For my grown Wine installation this now starts:
>
> - 2 instances of a Windows Worm
> - Google Talk (not working)
> - Skype (crashing)
> - pccam.exe from some digital camera disk
> - the annoying Steam.exe auto-update and ask-for-subscription dialog
> - perhaps more
>
> and this even on "make check" :(
>
> We probably need some tool to edit Run and RunOnce entries now.


wine regedit

Maybe it would be a good idea to have an option to make us of this new
feature...

greets,
Christian
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