Comment 6 for bug 1687179

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Jeremy BĂ­cha (jbicha) wrote : Re: Desktop icon Untrusted application launcher

corrado, this is not new to Ubuntu 17.10 or nautilus 3.24.

Right-click on the .desktop and click Properties.
Switch to the Permissions tab and make sure the Execute box is checked.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/Policies#Execute-Permission_Bit_Required

Since this is an intended security feature in Ubuntu, I am closing this bug report.