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From: J G Miller on 14 Jan 2010 11:23
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:10:57 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> why would one ever run automount and WINE anyway?

I am in no way seeking to justify anybody doing it, but somebody
may do it for convenience.

For example, they have a USB stick with software on it which is Windoze
only and they want it to run automagically every time they plug in the
USB stick.

In fact the USB stick may not just be a memory device but a media player
with memory and the Windoze software some audio and/or download tool.
From: The Natural Philosopher on 14 Jan 2010 13:54
jellybean stonerfish wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:10:57 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> J G Miller wrote:
>>> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:38:51 -0800, Greegor wrote:
>>>
>>>> I know I shouldn't laugh, but I just couldn't help it!
>>> Well security on Micro$loth windoze systems is rather a laugh, is it
>>> not?
>>>
>>> If the USB key was plugged into a BSD or GNU/Linux system and then
>>> examined with the usual tools, without any HAL automounting and clever
>>> script to automagically run any .autorun files present through WINE, no
>>> infection would result would it?
>> why would one ever run automount and WINE anyway?
>
> To be more like windows.

Not very much like windows.

You need vmware for that ;-)
From: The Natural Philosopher on 14 Jan 2010 13:56
J G Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:10:57 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> why would one ever run automount and WINE anyway?
>
> I am in no way seeking to justify anybody doing it, but somebody
> may do it for convenience.
>
> For example, they have a USB stick with software on it which is Windoze
> only and they want it to run automagically every time they plug in the
> USB stick.
>
> In fact the USB stick may not just be a memory device but a media player
> with memory and the Windoze software some audio and/or download tool.

I think jellybean has the best response. Namely that if you want
something that looks like windows, behaves like windows and is as
insecure as windows, there is windows!

You would normally pick Linux because you didn't want windows!
From: Maxwell Lol on 20 Jan 2010 09:47
J G Miller <miller(a)yoyo.ORG> writes:

> For example, they have a USB stick with software on it which is Windoze
> only and they want it to run automagically every time they plug in the
> USB stick.


That's like walking around in a men's prison with one's pants down....

I've played with various U3 hacking toolkits. I have disabled any sort
of automatic action when examining USB drives. Or so I thought.

Just last night I plugged in a USB drive on my Windows XP box.

Next thing I know it said it had installed a driver and I have to reboot my
laptop! Grrr. And it wasn't even a U3 USB drive.


From: Stan Bischof on 20 Jan 2010 12:17
In comp.os.linux.misc Maxwell Lol <nospam(a)com.invalid> wrote:
> J G Miller <miller(a)yoyo.ORG> writes:
>
>> For example, they have a USB stick with software on it which is Windoze
>> only and they want it to run automagically every time they plug in the
>> USB stick.
>
>
> That's like walking around in a men's prison with one's pants down....
>
> I've played with various U3 hacking toolkits. I have disabled any sort
> of automatic action when examining USB drives. Or so I thought.
>
> Just last night I plugged in a USB drive on my Windows XP box.
>
> Next thing I know it said it had installed a driver and I have to reboot my
> laptop! Grrr. And it wasn't even a U3 USB drive.
>

If you are running as admin in Windows _and_ have autorun
up and running, you get exactly what you deserve!

Stan
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