2009/2/23 Dan Kegel <d...@kegel.com>: > Ben Klein <shackl...@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 > > >
I disagree on this point. Is malware via Wine on Linux really a problem commonly affecting users? What happened to replicated Window's behavior bug for bug? User X might ask: double clicking an exe works in Windows why shouldn't it in Linux? Why should user X have to go through an extra step to do something on Linux than they would on Windows? -Zach