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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe
From:       "Steven D'Aprano" <dippy () mikka ! net ! au>
Date:       2000-05-18 13:31:52
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John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> >
> > For anyone using Linux, try not to laugh too hard :-)
> 
> We trust there's nothing in KDE that could lead to unwanted execution of
> untrusted binaries in like manner?
> 
> Remembering that kfm does run binaries with a single click, I wonder
> whether there's something in the KDE API that could lead to this in the
> same sort of way Eudora (and maybe other applications other than MS) was
> caught out on Windows using defaults for the HTML-rendering API.

Yes, very good point.

I believe the complacancy among the Unix/Linux community regarding
computer viruses is not justified. At the moment it is true that there
are no wild viruses that run under Linux. It is also true that the
Linux security model is much superior to that of Windows. But now that
Linux is moving into the desktop environment, there is no guarantee
that the situation will always be the same.


-- 
Steven D'Aprano

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