cross-platform virus

[Sasha Tsykin]

Hein-Pieter van Braam wrote:
> Try opening synaptic twice in a row, the login environment that gnome is
> in still holds the sudo ticket, and this it can restart an app without
> asking for the password again. I am guessing that is the concern 
> 
But then the command would have to run gksudo, and would have to be run 
at just the right time. Again not so likely. The greatest threat seems 
to be a command altering a shortcut or menu entry so that you type in 
the command in gksudo and then the virus runs and you don't even realise 
until you get whatever the Linux equivalent of a BSOD is.

Sasha