Re: Help with strings for "solution" for desktop file "virus" problem

[Simos <simos lists googlemail com>]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Dan Winship <danw gnome org> wrote:
> Alexander Larsson wrote:
>> So, there has been a lot of attention on the internets recently about
>> the the desktop file "virus" issue.
>>
>> I think its all pretty overblown, and any solution we have that doesn't
>> completely neuter the feature will just involve users learning to work
>> around the issue in cases where this is correct, and thus are likely to
>> do this when they are targets of an actual attack.
>
> What is the attack? Get someone to download a .desktop file off a web
> page? Is there any situation where that *should* work?

The source of the recent discussion on viruses on the Linux desktop is
the blog post
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6229

Simos