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Malware has been found hidden inside an innocuous 'waterfall' screensaver .deb file made available on popular artwork sharing site Gnome-Look.org.

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Created by davelong 12 years 24 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 24 weeks ago
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lozz

12 years 24 weeks 2 days 15 hours ago

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Poisoned candy

Sites dedicated to foolish pursuits like "eye-candy" collections would provide an attractive base for those distributing malware to the weaker intellects gathered there.

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Balzac

12 years 24 weeks 2 days 8 hours ago

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If Gnome supports malware...

Maybe it's time to move en masse to another window manager. A given desktop should not support malware. Any supporting scripting or run-time environments should be secure or they're breaking the covenant with the user. I'm this close >| |< to dropping Gnome for good. I generally don't give software a second chance on security or stability. I don't use gedit because it crashed once. It was supposed to be a basic text editor and it crashed once. I use leafpad now. Gnome is supposed to be a window manager and desktop environment. If it serves as a malware-run-time environment, I'm done with Gnome.

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