[Gllug] Anti-virus

[Stig Brautaset]

On Oct 26 2002, Nix wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Stig Brautaset muttered drunkenly:
> > I'm not an expert on these issues, but is that why mozilla put its
> > configuration file in ~/.mozilla/default/<random garbled string>/ ?
> 
> I doubt it; a worm could do a readdir() on ~/.mozilla/default to get
> that string :)

No doubt it can, but at least it'd not be as easy as a hard-coded path.
Anyway, I cannot see _any_ other possible explanation for that pathname.


Stig
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