<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Droid Sans Mono'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Saturday 21 February 2009, John Tapsell wrote:<br>
> In the screenshot, the text service 'mileage tracker' comes from the<br>
> untrusted .desktop file itself right? So couldn't the malicious<br>
> .desktop file put any service name? Such as "system. This is a vital<br>
> service - so you must click continue or risk breaking your system."<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Yes. Hmm, every part of the .desktop file is untrusted, including the filename. I wonder what makes sense to put instead, if anything. I'd rather not leave the dialog completely devoid of a clue as to what the service is. (We will have the Exec= line once I get the Details button to work)<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Regards,<br>
- Michael Pyne</p></body></html>