Malware on Wine review

[Dan Kegel]

Ben Klein <shacklein at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2009/02/23/running-windows-malware-in-linux/
>>
>> "Do not set the file association for Windows executables with Wine.
>> This would enable running Windows executables in Wine by simply double
>> clicking them."
>>
>> I saw a patch floating by to turn this on by default recently.  Maybe
>> we should make it off by default, but easy to turn on...?
>
> This would annoy all the people that the association targets. We can
> either make it easy to run all Windows apps (malware and legit) via
> file manager, or none at all.

Yes, exactly.  The default should be off, and it should be easy to
turn on.
- Dan