On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Dan Winship <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
