Software updater snuck in a package that is unwanted

[Bret Busby]

On 18/10/2017, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17 October 2017 at 20:50, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ..
>> Now, because that package is specified as automatically installing
>> packages, even against the will of the computer administrator, I have
>> had to disable software updating, including notifications of updates,
>> on that computer.
>
> So are you saying that with Updates in Software and Updates set to
> only inform you of security updates that it still is installing them
> without your permission?  If so then that is definitely a bug.
>

I had changed the settings in the Software Updater -> Settings ->
Software & Updates, after the package installed itself.

I had changed the settings, to prevent checking for and installing of
any further "updates".

I have now, in the last 24 hours, got a "Software Updater" thing come up with

"
Please restart the computer to begin using your updated software
"

That is more than a day after the system had been rebooted after the
las "system update, which involved the package installing itself, and,
more than a day after I had changed the settings, to prevent checking
for and installing of any further "updates".

In the Software Updater -> Settings -> Software & Updates,, the
configuration had been set to

Ubuntu Software - Downloadable from the Internet - all options deselected
Other Software - all options deselected
Updates:
Install updates from:
all greyed out - none selected
Automatically check for updates - Never
When there are security updates - Display immediately
When there are other updates - Display immediately


So, if this package was not a trojan horse, according to the resposes
to my problem, that have thus farn been posted to the list, that
package should have been disabled.

Instead, the package has apparently been installing unlisted software
from unlisted sources, with the unknown software that it has
inastalled without authorisation, requiring a system reboot,
indicating that the unknown software that the package has installed
without authorisation, being software that affects and involves the
operating system

The package is clearly trojan horse software.

This is not a "bug".

This is a software package that should never have been installed,
installing unknown operating system software, from unauthorised and
unknown sources, showing that, regarding
"
people with vastly more experience than yourself that
they don't know what they're talking about.
"
as the information that they have stated,. would prevent the package
from installing software, is clearly, wrong.

And the actions of the package, have clearly shown
"that they don't know what they're talking about."


-- 

Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
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