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My XP computer is trying to boot into Linux
This has happened twice now. I wake in the morning (yes noon is morning) I go to my computer to find it is stuck in the middle of rebooting. The last few lines of the log show the following.
GRUB ...
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What kinds of protections against viruses does Linux provide out of the box for the average user?
I know others have asked this, but I have other questions related to this. In particular, I'm concerned about the damage that the virus can do the user itself (his files), not the OS in general nor ...
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I think I got the “!want_to_cry.txt” (WannaCry?) virus on my Samba server. Was this inevitable?
Update: I have checked my note app where I opened the ransome note and the recent open files tab shows me the name of the text file I opened originally. I don't have the contents but the file was ...
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Hacked router affecting linux devices
The router of a friend of mine has been hacked, his android phone can't visit webpages with any kind of ads because it gets redirected to another site (this: http/...
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Strange Virus Infecting My Server
I am currently working on a Web App on my dedicated server (LAMP) and it seems like it might be infected with some strange malware/virus of some kind.
When I access some domains on that server (every ...
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VirtualBox and Security From Windows to Linux
If I have VirtualBox, hosted by Windows 7 and I install Linux Ubuntu on this, is there any security risk if I use the Linux OS for the internet but the hosted OS (Windows) has no Virus protection ...
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Linux botnet removal
I fear that I'm under a linux botnet takeover.
sudo netstat -antpv with all browsers closed, besides other results, returns this:
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address ...
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Strange TCP Connections - How to kill
My parents Mac is having some random issues - my mum paid £160 to get the computer repaired as there were some "trojans" according to the guy on the phone from india
On hearing this news I had a ...
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Is Linux vulnerable to Java drive-by exploits?
Is Linux vulnerable to Java drive-by exploits?
Another computer I run on windows 7 just notified me that it was infected through Java, and I'm wondering if my Linux box (ubuntu 10) with Java ...
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Kali Linux .iso infected
I wanted to try out Kali Linux, so I downloaded a VM and the Kali Linux ISO file from the official Kali website. It was running perfectly fine initially. However, after about a week, my laptop started ...
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Why don't Unix/Linux don't get malware while Windows does? [closed]
Windows is a commercial OS, so it should probably be the more secure one, as it's the moral/professional duty of people who are making money out of it.
But Linux, which is open-source to both good ...
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Fedora Linux keeps doing DNS requests to random sites
I have Fedora 12 Linux on my laptop with all the latest security updates installed. But when I open wireshark and view only dns requests (by adding a dns filter), I notice that my laptop keeps doing ...
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Process path does not exists
A VM of mine got infected with some crypto mining malware. I can kill it but it obviously restart at each boot. I tried finding the executable but I can't get my hands on it; the process path (from ...
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Can Ransomware migrate from an infected PC to uninfected Linux computers on a network?
My roommate's company was recently hit by a comprehensive Ransomware attack and she has been working from home via our home network. All the other computers in our house other than her work machine ...
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ClamAV and Metasploit
I removed the Metasploit framework with the command dnf remove
metasploit-framework and I did a full scan of my Linux distribution
with Clam AV and 4 infected files are detected:
/var/cache/...
