[Gllug] Trojans and social engineering

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On 11 Aug 2010, t. clarke uttered the following:

> Just a throw away thought - but I have always felt that one of the dangerous
> aspects of GUIs - Windows at least - is the fact that a user can simply click
> on an icon/filename without any clue as to whether it represents an executable
> or a file of a particular type to be 'operated upon' by ana potentially
> unkown executable.

Like .desktop files and xdg-open, and like #! under linux, you mean?
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