commandlinegamer writes "foobar posted on his blog recently, 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 be still 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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