Re: [PLUG] spyware

I think they developed "Evil Gnome" because "Evil KDE" does not have that certain je ne sais quoi.

Eric

(A KDE user.)

(Yes, I'm aware there are probably evil KDE extensions and I'm sure they have lousy names.)

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 12:45 PM jeff via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

https://thehackernews.com/2019/07/linux-gnome-spyware.html

EvilGnome malware masquerades itself as a legit GNOME extension, a
program that lets Linux users extend the functionality of their desktops.

According to the researchers, the implant is delivered in the form of a
self-extracting archive shell script created with 'makeself,' a small
shell script that generates a self-extractable compressed tar archive
from a directory.
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