Malware threat to GNOME & KDE

commandlinegamer writes: "foobar posted on his blog recently, How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps detailing potential malware infection risks in the .desktop file format used by GNOME and KDE. This is not a new threat, and it appears to be still a risk as discussions in 2006 did not seem to come to any firm conclusion on how to deal with the problem. A followup on LWN is here."