Software updater snuck in a package that is unwanted

[Bret Busby]

On 17/10/2017, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Thank you for that.

On this system, it shows

"
~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release:	16.04
Codename:	xenial
"

with the same response on the (now) infected system.


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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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