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I know. I'm just thinking in terms of the botnet spread "factor", I think that will go down as more people start using firefox/more secure browsers, and that market share will go up when Microsoft stops bundling IE. Of course they are just going to get the OEMs to do it for them, maybe some OEMs will package Firefox, who knows.
...when Microsoft stops bundling IE with Windows (depending on what happens with that anti-trust case in the EU). Does anyone know if that would also affect NA?
Ok, I'm not sure how that would fix it though, I mean if you make them into scripts then wouldn't that be an even easier way to attack? Unless you mean that they are always displayed to the user until they set the +x themselves? I'm sure I'm missing the point here though, its early (and no coffee).
Ah, I see. I suppose another solution could be warning the user the first time they run a shortcut that uses perl/python/ruby/php/whatever scripting language. Maybe pop up a window displaying the parameters even they are longer than X characters.
This whole problem could be avoided by using a reverse ssh tunnel!
In all seriousness though, when I use linux I prefer to use some lightweight WM so I am not affected by this.desktop thing. Why do shortcuts need to have the ability to run code?
