Autoplay considered harmful

[Remco]

Vista (and I think XP too) ask whether you want to start the Autorun program, or do a few other actions (open explorer, copy disk, etc).

Remco

----- Original Message ----
> From: Evil Jay <wine at eternaldusk.com>
> To: Steven Edwards <winehacker at gmail.com>
> Cc: wine-devel <wine-devel at winehq.org>; Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 5:44:15 PM
> Subject: Re: Autoplay considered harmful
> 
> 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  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.
> >
> >   
> 
> 
> 
> 




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