James Hawkins wrote: > On 2/11/07, Misha Koshelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ok, thanks to everybody's responses on the wine-devel list. Here is my >> new version of this patch. It starts the items in the StartUp folder >> like Windows does (again, if anybody who knows about IShellFolder will >> look over my code that would be great :) I tested it and it works for >> the Vector NTI installer, but I would really like to have an expert's >> opinion on whether it is missing osmething). There were a lot of >> comments on wine-devel about malware using this system to start itself >> so here is what I added: >> >> To me it seems like this would be enough to prevent malware from using >> this system because the user could just click no or never. Also, someone >> pointed out that wineboot already runs quite a lot of other RUN registry >> keys that can be used for malware, and currently there is no system for >> these keys like the one I made for startup. Any comments will be >> appreciated. Thanks. >> > > These anti-malware changes are unnecessary. We implement Wine to be > bug-for-bug compatible with Windows. Windows doesn't ask this Then you will have to implement all the required functionality to allow anti-malware programs to function properly. Until then, Wine have to have some solutions to prevent nasty things to run on Wine. The excuse "bug-for-bug" will not cut it here! If you want that - you should not have ever switched to Linux in the first place.
Vitaliy.