Wine + KDE -- default program for .exe on upgrade

I find that every time I pacman -Syu, WINE gets set as the default program for opening windows .exe files.
Since I'm a sysadmin for several mail servers, I occasionally have to open suspicious e-mails and see what they are, including examining the attachments. I'm worried that one day I'll accidentally double-click one of the .exe ones and that wine will run it.
I'm sure WINE doesn't have the level of windows compatibility required for spyware & viruses to do much, but it still makes me nervous.
I always go into the KDE settings and remove this file association as soon as I notice it, but I'm wondering if there's any way to make it stay permanently gone?
Is this something the package maintainer for WINE and/or KDE has any control over, or is this the wrong place to complain about it?
~Felix.

kensai wrote:Well, I am the wine package maintainer, so email me your suggestions and I will discuss with other developers. Thanks.
Oh, cool. Anyway, I think I figured out a way to fix it -- just remove this line from usr/share/applications/wine.desktop in the wine package:
MimeType=application/x-ms-dos-executable;application/x-msdos-program;application/x-msdownload;
That'll stop KDE (and probably everything else that uses /usr/share/applications as its mime provider database) from automatically associating it.
I know the .desktop file will then be technically incorrect by not listing WINE as being a handler for any mime types, but this way users will have to set it up manually if they want the ability to run strange programs by accident ;)
You could also add a message about it to the pacman install, something like
==> by default, WINE is not associated with Windows executables for safety reasons.
If you want to run ANY Windows executable by just double-clicking it (NOT recommended),
you'll have to do this as root:
echo "MimeType=application/x-ms-dos-executable;application/x-msdos-program;application/x-msdownload;" >> /usr/share/applications/wine.desktop
~Felix.

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