Autoplay considered harmful

[Evil Jay]

XP does not do this.  I've never used Vista, nor can I imagine why
anyone would want to.

If Vista does do this, then prompting would be proper, but only when
Wine is configured to present itself as Vista.

-J



Remco wrote:
> 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).
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> Remco
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> ----- Original Message ----
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>> 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
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>> 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!)
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>> But, whatever you guys decide to do is cool - as long as you keep
>> cranking out this great package!  :)
>>
>> -Jesse
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>> Steven Edwards wrote:
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>>> On Feb 16, 2008 8:58 AM, Dan Kegel  wrote:
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>> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/15/BU47V0VOH.DTL&type=business
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>>>> 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...
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>>> 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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