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How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps

How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps

Posted Feb 12, 2009 20:46 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps by cate
Parent article: How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps

You don't get it. The interpreter is a specialized interpreter
for .desktop files, which does all the parse-and-launch stuff. *It* checks
the state of the executable bit on the .desktop files that it is invoked
with, and *nothing else runs programs named in .desktop files at all*.


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