On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Dan Kegel <d...@kegel.com> wrote: > http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2009/02/23/running-windows-malware-in-linux/ > is an interesting report; all the malware he tried ran > to at least some extent on wine. > > One interesting bit of advice he gives at the end is > > "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...? > > >
That patch, which I wrote, works a differently than you describe. It generates an association from a file extension, to open with the handler for its ProgID currently in the registry. So it allows .txt to open with Notepad and .dev to open with Dev-C++. It does not make Wine open a new .exe by default - at least, that was not the intention. Windows executables already run in Wine when you double click on them - that's tools/wine.desktop doing it's job. Damjan
