Stefan Dösinger wrote:
Am Samstag 10 Februar 2007 05:20 schrieb Vitaliy Margolen:
Misha Koshelev wrote:
Hi,
As you all may have noticed, I have been making quite a few patches
within the last two weeks (or at least quite a few when compared to zero
before then) because I had figured out that the Vector NTI program that
is quite important in molecular biologThis patch makes sure that wine
will start items in the StartUp folder
IMHO this should not be fixed.
I've seen lots and lots of malicious programs using this mechanism to
start themselves. And even worse if installer uses this to restart
itself. That means this installer might not work most of the time on
windows.
Malicious programs can also write themselves to
HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Run, a key that wineboot reads. So I do not
see any advantage in implementing the Run key, but not the autostart folder.
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I second that opinion. I do computer tech support (ie getting viruses
and spy/malware off of windows) at my university and if there's a case
for not implementing one of those two run at boot features, disabling
the Run key would be the stronger since most, if not all malicious
programs now use the run registry location as opposed to the Startup folder.
It really comes down to the amount of power a user should have. Maybe
require a gksu whenever an app tries to write something to that folder
or that registry location?
/2cents
-Dave
