<div dir="ltr">less itself doesn't seem to be to blame-- it's the environment variables that cause invocation of helper filters. The mailing list entry referenced in the article (<a href="http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/74">http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/74</a> ) offers what appears to be good advice:<div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0em">At this point, my best advice would be for users to unset LESSOPEN and</pre></div><div><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0em">LESSCLOSE if set by their distress.</pre></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 1:35 PM, tom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I read that using the less command line will make me vulernable to malware.<br>
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<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2851692/less-means-more-to-malware-authors-targeting-linux-users.html" target="_blank">http://www.pcworld.com/article/2851692/less-means-more-to-malware-authors-targeting-linux-users.html</a><br>
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Has this problem been dealt with, or should I not use less? Is there an<br>
alternative command I can use instead of less? I am using LinuxMint 17<br>
Cinnamon.<br>
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Tom<br>
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