cross-platform virus

Peter Garrett peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au
Mon Apr 10 02:17:20 BST 2006


On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 20:45:15 -0400
Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 08:23 +0800, John wrote:
> > 
> > If they have /usr/bin/VirusXXx then the battle's already won and lost.
> > 
> > I'd be more worried about ~/bin/badstuff. 
> 
> Is this really in the $PATH by default?  That seems like a problem.
> 

In .bash_profile it seems to be commented out by default ( checked on a
"new" user on my system)

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
#if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
#    PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
#fi

Peter

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