Re: Autostart virus danger

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas gnome org>]

to., 04.11.2010 kl. 06.11 -0400, skrev Richard Stallman:
> > Is there anything in Nautilus that controls prompting to run Autostart
>     > files from removable media when they are mounted?
>     > 
>     > If not, is there anything elsewhere in GNOME that has control
>     > over this?
> 
>     You should be able to control autorun behavior from the "Media" section
>     of the nautilus' preferences. Or is that not enough?
> 
> We are miscommunicating, because you are offering user help.  I am not
> asking for help.  I am concerned about making the GNU system handle
> these issues the best way.
> 
> Where is the _code_ that implements this behavior.  Is it in Nautilus?
> 
I think this is it:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/tree/src/nautilus-autorun-software.c

There's a pointer to the freedesktop.org spec for autorun in that file
as well.

Cheers
Kjartan