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Woulr rm -i help too?
Authored by: tang on May 18, '04 11:52:30AM

It depends on how the trojan was written. For instance, the writer could just refer to the full path of the rm command. /bin/rm (or wherever it is by default) and the alias would not work. Also, what is to stop the trojan from just aliasing rm back to rm before they execute? or if the trojan even loads your .bash_profile or not...



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