What to learn from this article: (Score 1)

Hi all,
this article proofs the validity of an old saying:

You just shouldn't believe everything that is published on the web!

You may believe me, this 'article' on linuxguru.net _is_ a Hoax! :-D

Please see yourself - I am sure after reading it all you will agree to me:

They wrote:

(...)
Finally, the most important 'bug' most distributions have,
is allowing a Windows executable to be run with wine without
an obvious chance for interception, by default. Sure, it
comes up with a window, telling you that wine is running,
and allowing you to disable the notice, however, it does
NOT warn you about the application being executed in such
a way that you could stop it before it was started.
(...)

This has always been, is and will ever be *wrong*!

The contrary is true: An explicit warning dialog is shown and the user must click on [Open] there - which is *not* the default button.

e.g. If the user clicks on an attachment called ek_1.exe the dialog will look like this:
"Open attachment 'ek_1.exe' with 'WINE'?
Note that opening an attachment may compromise your system's security!"

Please have a look: screenshot_1

So there is *no* automatic execution of the windows binary, and the user is told exactly what would happen if she clicks the [Open] button, the warning dialog (showing a yellow exclamation sign) is eays to understand:

• It explains _what_ will be loaded/executed and
• it explains _how_ this would be done: by running WINE.

So it is clear that the statements made in this linuxguru.net article are absolutely wrong.

IMHO this is a Hoax published shortly before the release of KDE 3.1
- perhaps in order to apply some FUD technics to potential KDE users.

Karl-Heinz Zimmer
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