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Re: [LUG] Grism.org

 

2009/12/14 Simon Robert <simon.robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> There has never been an example of a .deb file from a project website
> installing one of these non-existent nasties!
>

Er..

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=gnome+look+malware

> If there had been someone would have noticed fast! It would have been
> all over forums like this one and the perps well and truly outed. So to
> tell someone all this stuff about non existing dangers is paranoid,
> irresponsible and hysterical.
>

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/12/09/2215253/Malware-Found-Hidden-In-Screensaver-On-Gnome-Look

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

Cheers,
Al.

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