How do I stop this malware
by Michael Hennebry
I stumbled onto a very bad website:
d1ykbfcai6wsme dot cloudfront dot net slash werrx01 slash
phone=+1 dash 888 dash 387 dash 3976 &# .
nslookup gives several IP addresses for it:
13.227.44.(3, 62, 26, 12) and
2600:9000:21fa:(ca, ce, 14, 2e, 7e, b6, c2, ee)00:1:6351:b980:21
firefox went fullscreen and kept telling me that
my computer was locked because, without my knowledge,
it had been used for bad things.
I should call the given number for help getting
rid of the malware and to get my computer unlocked.
Do not restart your computer or data loss and
release of personal information might result.
The mouse would only show up on the
always-on-top window of an expired timer.
I'd encountered similar before.
This time I switched to virtual console 3 and SIGSTOPped firefox.
When I got back to the GUI, virtual console 1, I had to log in again.
Didn't help. Computer was quieter, but still unresponsive.
I went back to virtual console 3. There was the GUI. Huh?
Ok, virtual console 5.
SIGCONT firefox and go back to the GUI.
Turn off networking before logging in.
That did it.
I took firefox out of fullscreen mode.
I got the above information and deleted
just the window I wanted rid of.
The first time I encountered this,
I wasn't as bright and just rebooted.
How is that sort of thing done and
how do I keep it from happening again?
I the meantime, how do I blacklist those addresses?
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Michael hennebry(a)mail.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Occasionally irrational explanations are required" -- Luke Roman
7 months, 1 week
Anyone using 5G as their internet access method?
by stan
I recently received an offer from T-mobile to use their 5G network as
my main internet access. It was contingent on a contract for phone
with them, but the price and speed for internet was competitive. Has
anyone done this using fedora, or I suppose, any other system? Horror
stories or kudos? The main drawback I could see was that it was a lot
like early cable, where the bandwidth depended on the number of users
on your branch. If it was just me, I have the whole pipe, and it would
be awesome. Ten others and me, and not so hot as we shared the bandwidth
among us.
7 months, 1 week
Question regarding sudo and su
by old sixpack13
I have the following problem:
I'm logged in as user joe (he is not in sudo group) and want to etherwake a remote box, called nuc, via an one-liner in an script.
now, on an command line, I usually do
1. su - ron (ron is in sudo group)
2. and then sudo ether-wake -i enp3s0 <mac-address> && ping nuc
etherwake needs root access
I want to combine 1. and 2. and run the combined command out of an script, but I'm failling.
I don't want to have user joe in sudo group
Idea's ?
7 months, 1 week
Anyone have recommendations for using VOIP in fedora?
by stan
VOIP has been around for a while, so I am thinking it has to be mature.
Is it possible to just install a package and then call standard phone
numbers over the web from fedora? I'm not really interested in video
calls, just voice, but if the best service also is video, well, so it
goes. Is anyone using it, and has tips to offer?
When I searched, the most recommeded packages didn't seem to be
available in the fedora repositories. One I remember was jitsi. I
assume it isn't popular enough to be packaged, or there is some other
method of getting it.
7 months, 1 week
Fedora 39 Upgrade Test Day is underway!
by Sumantro Mukherjee
Hey All,
As we come closer to Fedora 39 release dates, it's time to test upgrades.
Fedora 39 has a lot of changesets and it becomes essential that we
test the graphical upgrade methods as well as the command line.
As a part of this test day[0], we will test upgrading from a full
updated, F37 and F38 to the F39 for all architectures(x86_64,ARM,aarch
64) and variants(WS,cloud,server,silverblue,IoT).
We understand that upgrade takes time and testing if things work as
expected, takes more.
We will be accepting results throughout the weekend!
The results can be submitted here[1]
As usual, we hang out on the #fedora-test-day, should you have questions.
[0] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2023-10-05_F39_Upgrade_Test_Day
[1] https://testdays.fedoraproject.org/events/158
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//sumantro
Fedora QE
TRIED AND PERSONALLY TESTED, ERGO TRUSTED
7 months, 2 weeks
grub options
by GianPiero Puccioni
Hi,
I usually avoid "rhgb" in the boot command as I like to see what happens. I did
this editing the /etc/default/grub and removing it and it did work for a long time.
In the last few kernel updates it did not work and rhgb is in the boot line.
I grubby-ed it away but the following update put it back. I could not find any
mention of it in /etc/default/grub or any /etc/grub config files, so where does
it come from? /boot/grub2/grub.cfg still says:
#
# It is automatically generated by grub2-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
G
7 months, 2 weeks
Couple of Thunderbird pains
by Robert McBroom
In the past I would just enter "users" in the "To " space and would get
the list entry users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org. Somehow that now gets
attached to send to a person instead of the list. Have to explicitly
type in the list address. Is there a fix?
Thunderbird keeps continually telling me it wants to compact the mails
storage for what is a trivial amount of space, Is there a way to make it
use a reasonable size to do the prompt?
I set the font size to small but it always reverts to medium, where
would a permanent setting be located?
7 months, 2 weeks
LiveUSB doesn't boot
by Joe Zeff
Recently, I had trouble creating a LiveUSB and asked for help here. I
was given instructions on how to create it using dd, and followed them
after correcting a slight error in the instructions. Now, I've finally
got my laptop back, and tried to use the flash drive. All that happens
is a grub> prompt. I don't know what went wrong, or how to correct it.
This is the command that I used:
dd if=f38.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=1M
And the correction was using M instead of m.
7 months, 2 weeks