Quirks with Ubuntu 8.10 32 Bit, Contiued....

[Leigh Honeywell]

Skipping the music stuff as I don't know about that...

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:39:00PM -0400, Alfred wrote:
> 
> I was downloading late at night and downloaded Gnome Reset. The Confuser
> was left on for about an hour after the download finished. Next day when
> I turned it on the hard drive was doing all kinds of stuff and the Modem
> was doing something, not normal. So I turned the modem off, and did a

"something not normal" isn't terribly descriptive - what was it doing?

> Virus Check, two sets of Gnome Reset had downloaded, one was OK, but the
> other was a VIRUS, that does a Phishing Scam. Uses a Key-logger, to get
> all kinds of facts off my Computer. This was not from an Email, but from
> one of the repositories, here in America. ClamTK found it and another
> file, and I deleted these, and that got rid of this VIRUS. Why was it
> that Files can no longer be Authenticated for downloading?

I grabbed the latest gnome-reset package and ran it through virustotal:

http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/dcd41239136573c4289cecc597cf6e32

looks like it's fine.  However, that's the authenticated package coming
from the ubuntu mirrors.  I'm not sure what else you were downloading
such that you got two copies.  Sounds like one "copy" might have been a
drive-by download.

Are you running third-party repositories?  The official ubuntu ones are
all gpg-signed and will be authenticated against the keys which shipped
with your installation.

> I tried to use my Scanner that worked well in 7.10, but it is no longer
> working in 8.10. An HP Scanjet 5p (A SCSI Scanner). Any fix for this? 

I don't know anything about scsi scanners but a quick google turned up
this possibly helpful thread:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1079492&page=2

Good luck!

-Leigh