Software updater snuck in a package that is unwanted

[Colin Law]

On 17 October 2017 at 11:31, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> On 10/17/2017 02:05 AM, Ralf Mardorf 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
>>
>>
>>
> Ralf,
>
> When I enter:
> cdjsys at polar:~$ sudo lsb_release -a
>
> The result shows:
>
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
> Release:        16.04
> Codename:       xenial
> cdjsys at polar:~$
>
> Is this a problem? What are LSB modules?

Google will tell you what they are, and no it isn't a problem, it is
just reporting you haven't got any.

Colin