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A warning on a new destructive 'trojan horse'
Authored by: comodin on May 13, '04 06:23:06AM

trojans only can do what they know.
they know there is a "rm" to run and they know there is a ~/ to delete. if u spend ur time to rename the rm, then they maybe know other tools to use. for me the best way is to use non-standard-named-folders for my files. folder-names, a trojan cant know.
for example, i am working with more than only one harddisks. i have a system-disk with a ~/ , and i have a raid system with my files. all folders inside my ~/ are aliales to my raid. so, i guess if this trojan run on my system, he only can delete my aliases. btw, thats the same i do with every fresh-install of new MacOSX-release by formating my system-disk and leaving the raid untouched.
so, i am waiting now for the trojan who'll do rm -rf /Volumes/



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