
Originally Posted by
F_style
I've never seen this before. Is this a Wine feature? Not a virus/malware related?
.url files are Windows' Internet Shortcuts (or whatever they are called), i.e. links to a web page.
wine registers itself as handler for .url files (and others), by creating a file ~/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-url.desktop with the following content:
Code:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=rundll32
MimeType=application/x-mswinurl;
Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/wolfi/.wine" wine start /ProgIDOpen InternetShortcut %f
NoDisplay=true
StartupNotify=true
Icon=1CD8_rundll32.0
Just look into "Configure Desktop"->"File Associations" and search for "url" if you use KDE.
What it does is just call Firefox (via wine-gecko I think) to display the web page.
So no, this is no virus, it is a wine feature.
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