User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20070122 Firefox/2.0.0.1 Build Identifier: If I create a new URL Link (via right clicking, Desktop -> Create URL Link) and name it s.F.o it doesn't handle it correctly. It shows on the desktop as s_F_o.desktop with "Kind" x-thunar/suspected-malware, contents are; " [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Encoding=UTF-8 Type=Link Name=s.F.o Comment= Icon=gnome-fs-bookmark URL=http://soul.fbeye.org " Creating a link with the name soul.fbeye.org with the same link however does create it properly. Also, when using "http://soul.fbeye.org" as the name it displays on the desktop as "http:__soul_fbeye_org.desktop" with Kind as desktop configuration file, although it still appears to handle the URL correctly unlike the one named s.F.o I hope I've included enough information, if not please ask Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Yep, this is malware detection in thunar-vfs. If you create a .desktop file that tries to look like a regular file thunar-vfs will mark that as malware and show the real file name. The name 's.F.o' is matched by the *.o glob rule (for object files) and is therefore recognized as malware (a .desktop file trying to look like a object file). Therefore choose a name that is not matched by any glob rule.