Antivirus and anti spam for ubuntu desktop - 2

[valhalla2100 at comcast.net]

Hello,

Sorry that I did not think to keep or note the 
URL that caused the problem.  I did not realize
when I had to turn off the computer that there
were going to be any problems.

I did not want to lose the data on the drive and
thought that it would be possible to access it
as an external drive.

That may not be easy to do because of security 
system built into LINUX.  

The term "e/m" is an abriviation for email.  I
guess that it is not yet widely used.  This is
quicker to type than email and that is why I
also started using it.

The reason that I access PhotoShop (and other
Windows programs) alerts and tutorials is that
I use two computers and my Windows computer is
not connected to the internet.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:05:51 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: Antivirus and anti spam for ubuntu desktop

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:57 PM,  <valhalla2100 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Your reply is wrong.
>
> I was infected when I checked out a Google Alert
> PhotoShop Layer.  Turned out that the URl was not
> for information on layers.  I went to a page that
> had PhotoShop [and other text that I did not get
> to read] on it and I was instantly taken to anot
> horrible page.  Pop-ups and when I tried to use
> the computer the next day my e/m did not work.
> I rebooted and nothing worked.

I am sorry, but I can't understand what you're saying here. For
example, what is "e/m"?

> My solution was to buy a new hard drive and switch
> from Ubuntu to Mint.

That seems very drastic on one hand - why not simply reformat &
reinstall if you though you had an infection? On the other hand, it's
rather inadequate, since Mint is just a custom version of Ubuntu &
offers you no more protection.

In reality, at the worst, simply deleting your Firefox profile &
creating a new one would have been fine even if a rogue script had
managed to change your homepage & other settings. But even if it did -
and I do not recall hearing of any such thing - then that is not a
virus. A virus is a program that spreads from one computer to another,
by stealth, under its own power. A rogue webpage is not a virus.

Also, why look at Photoshop pages from Linux? Photoshop doesn't run on
Linux. If you were using Photoshop via WINE or a Windows VM, it *is*
possible to infect *them* with Windows viruses.

Finally, I & many others would also be very interested to know /what/
page did this and where you found it.

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