If Gnome supports malware...

Maybe it's time to move en masse to another window manager. A given desktop should not support malware. Any supporting scripting or run-time environments should be secure or they're breaking the covenant with the user. I'm this close >| |< to dropping Gnome for good. I generally don't give software a second chance on security or stability. I don't use gedit because it crashed once. It was supposed to be a basic text editor and it crashed once. I use leafpad now. Gnome is supposed to be a window manager and desktop environment. If it serves as a malware-run-time environment, I'm done with Gnome.