Follow up: How to write a Linux virus

Has nothing to do with linux.

It's a KDE/Gnome problem. This is a result of mindlessly aping MS. This is inevitable, and will only get worse unless they radically rethink things, which sadly I dont see happening.

One more good reason not to sully *nix with 'desktop environment' thinking. My prediction is that unfortunately people will continue blithely along this path and the free DEs will be no more secure than Windows in a few more years. That's pretty much inevitable. However it still seems just vaguely imaginable that there are enough clued users in the 'linux' ecosystem to reject DEs and keep enough programs free of their crap that X remains usable without them. Unfortunately that seems quite unlikely as well, really, I'm just saying *possible*. :(