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Malware Threat To GNOME and KDE

Posted by timothy on from the turducken dept.

commandlinegamer writes "foobar posted on his blog recently about 'How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps,' detailing potential malware infection risks in the .desktop file format used by GNOME and KDE. This is not a new threat, and it appears to still be a risk, as discussions in 2006 did not seem to come to any firm conclusion on how to deal with the problem." There's a followup on LWN.

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  1. Re:Frost piss by Arslan+ibn+Da'ud · · Score: 0, Troll

    Simple solution. Change the GNOME/KDE desktop & filebrowser to refuse to execute programs owned by the user. Stops trojans dead.

    Yes, it is a bit inconvenient...if a user wants to run a downloaded program they have to..urk...USE THE COMMMAND LINE! AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!

    Perfect way to stop 'stupid' users from running malware.

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