Search for utility to identify source of WWW traffic

[Bret Busby]

On 01/04/2018, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 12:23:27 -0800, Bob wrote:
>>I think it is a highjacked computer
>
> That is guessing.
>
> Take a look at other Bret threads, e.g.
>
> Liam's guess:
> "[snip] My reluctant conclusion is that Bret [snip] is unwilling or
> unable to take advice, and he will not supply the people trying to help
> him with direct, honest, open answers. [snip]" -
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2018-March/293756.html
>
> He consistently is ignoring explanations from this mailing list, e.g.
> quoting release notes and ignoring security warnings, see
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2018-March/293769.html
>
> I suspect Liam and I are not the only subscribers thinking something
> like this:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2018-March/293778.html
>
> Consider to take a look at the "Query about parasitic firefox file"
> thread and to take a look at the "Unable to write to new partitions"
> thread.
>
> He still did not reply to my request to post the output of
>
>   lsb_release -a
>
> and the output of
>
>   apt list packagename_of_browser_1 packagename_of_browser_2
>
> We also don't know if any browser add-on is used, that might require
> some traffic. maybe we could help him, if we would know the IP.
>
> Sure, it could be that one of Bret's completely messed up installs is
> highjacked, e.g. by a security whole of an outdated browser, but it's
> also possible, that a messed up install suffers from another issue,
> without access from a hacker. We don't have any useful information.
>
>
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So, the purpose of this list, is now flaming?

Sad.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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