autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

[Peter Bortas]

On 1/11/08, Marcus Meissner <meissner at suse.de> wrote:
> 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.

And a flag to turn off this behaviour. So far I've never had a setup
where I'd want the Run/RunOnce entries to execute.

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Peter Bortas