<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Joel. I became suspicious of the email when I started to receive messages from Gmail's mailer telling me it couldn't forward the message I sent, and would keep trying for a couple of days. I clicked the link I cited here on the email I received (it looked legit although I think my guard was too low) and it led me to my entry on prospective employer's jobs portal.</div><div><br></div><div>It might have been a case of a man in the middle. Anyway, I'll get on with my life...<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 May 2018 at 22:00, Joel Rees <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joel.rees@gmail.com" target="_blank">joel.rees@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Owen Thomas <<a href="mailto:owen.paul.thomas@gmail.com">owen.paul.thomas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I clicked on a link inside what I thought was a follow-up email sent to me<br>
> about a job application. If you want to know what the link was, you'll find<br>
> it here. I don't recommend clicking it, because I don't know what it does; I<br>
> supplied it merely in case someone could inspect the link and advise. I<br>
> tried to reply to the sender and apparently the recipient's email server<br>
> cannot be contacted.<br>
><br>
> Now, it appears that a whole swag of downloads are failing when I try to<br>
> connect to get patches. Eventually I get a dialogue window that displays<br>
> "Failed to download package files.". My internet connection is fine because<br>
> you received this email.<br>
><br>
> Could my troubles with the software updates be related to link I clicked on<br>
> the email? Should I perhaps do a complete reinstall of my Ubuntu?<br>
><br>
> Owen.<br>
<br>
</div></div>FWIW, neither lynx nor wget will connect. The server is misconfigured.<br>
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