Software updater snuck in a package that is unwanted

Ralf Mardorf silver.bullet at zoho.com
Tue Oct 17 07:05:34 UTC 2017


On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 08:32:13 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
>Maybe you should read the original message? There Bret mentioned 
>"Synaptic shows it (I think) as unattended upgrades" which should tell 
>you that the package in question is "unattended-upgrades". That
>package is in main, so there is no need for speculation about third
>party repos.

If you should have followed all "trojan" related mails from Bret, you
wouldn't assume that the culprit for the assumption that his install
might suffer from malicious software not necessarily is related to
"unattended-upgrades". Bret is guessing a lot.

On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 14:55:37 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>It is v16.04.x (that appears to be not included in the response to the
>uname-a command).

The command is lsb_release.

[root at moonstudio ~]# lsb_release -a
LSB Version:	core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release:	16.04
Codename:	xenial






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