Wine & viruses

[IneedAname]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:11:20 +0100
Martin Hinner <martin at hinner.info> wrote:

>   The problem is that some (almost all?) distributions simply execute
> .exe file when you click on it. I was amazed when testing JTAGTest on
> Linux! This is in my opinion quite big issue as ordinary users do not
> have problem clicking on "New folder.exe" on their flashdisk etc. It's
> good that wine is so compatible that it runs even viruses, but I think
> there should be some (optional) protection. The biggest problem seem
> to be removable media, in many distributions mounted under /mnt or
> /media. Please think about this twice before writing "problem is in
> Microsoft not in Wine", "it's not a bug but feature", etc. It's too
> childish IMO.

Why not make Wine honor the noexe flag on the mount?