wine autorun utility

William Knop william.knop at gmail.com
Fri Jun 30 01:17:09 CDT 2006


On Jun 30, 2006, at 2:01 AM, Tim Schmidt wrote:

> On 6/30/06, William Knop <william.knop at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1) While I agree maintaining a staunch security policy is important,
>> that has nothing to do with autorun. Making the user browse to find
>> an executable is not security.
>
> Yet again...  when a user sticks an audio CD in his computer and gets
> a rootkit because of autorun, that's _b_a_d_
>
> That user isn't going to browse out to the rootkit and install it  
> him/her self.

Yeah, then in that situation the user wouldn't run `wine --media- 
autorun /mountpoint/autorun.inf` either. I fail to see your point.

Will



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