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About OS X 'trojan horses'
Authored by: mommsen on May 12, '04 01:49:15PM

If you replace rm -rf with /bin/rm -rf in above example you are back to square one. In addition your alias will have to defined regardless of the shell the malicious script will use. Therefore, an alias is only a very weak protection in this case.



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