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How about renaming /bin/rm?
Authored by: sapporo on May 12, '04 03:05:30PM
If that trojan really does work by issuing a rm command, then I guess you could break it by renaming /bin/rm, as in
sudo mv /bin/rm /bin/rm.disabled
But this would of course break all programs that use rm.

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