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). > > Remco > > ----- Original Message ---- > >> From: Evil Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: Steven Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Cc: wine-devel <wine-devel@winehq.org>; Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> 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. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > > >