Re: Boxes - Ejecting ISO?

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On 01/09/2018 02:45 PM, Kevin Barbour wrote:
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 3:37 AM, Eddie O'Connor > wrote:


Greetings all, I have this issue I've been wracking my brains out
trying to fix.

I have installed Fedora 27 countless times, and I have decided to
try the "Boxes" virtualization application. Everything runs smooth
and easy, I tried installing Ubuntu and the install went great,.
My question is:

After the typical install Ubuntu prompts me to restart the
machine. When I do?...it closes out just fine. BUT, when I click
on the icon that's been created in Boxes, the VM starts up and
wants to install Ubuntu again. I see no option/menu item that
permits me to remove the ISO I used to install Ubuntu. Is there
something I'm missing here? How do I get the disk to boot up from
the "already installed" OS and not the iso I had to use to install
it to begin with?

As always, and and all help/advice provided will be extremely
appreciated!

Cheers!





EGO II

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If you right click the icon for your Ubuntu VM in boxes and select 
properties there is a "Devices & Shares" tab where you are able to 
remove the mounted ISO.


--
Kevin Barbour
VCU Office of Technology Services
Infrastructure Analyst, Administrative Systems
804-828-8698 


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Thank you Sir!.this worked! Thank goodness!!


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Re: Spectacular F24 to F25 dnf Upgrade Failure

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On 01/22/2017 09:31 AM, Brian Hanks wrote:


Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 14:10:43 -0700 From: stan
 Subject: Re: Spectacular F24 to F25
dnf Upgrade Failure To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Message-ID:
<20170121141043.3a363...@vfemail.net> Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=UTF-8

What was the command you used to do the upgrade? Is there anything
unusual about your installation?

I used ‘dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=25’ follow by ‘dnf 
system-upgrade reboot’. Nothing terribly unusual. Typical dual boot 
Win10 & Fedora on a 3 year old HP Envy 15t laptop with two SSDs.


Does windows still boot properly?

Yes, Win10 still running fine.

You should open a bugzilla against dnf to document your
experiences and allow the potential to get this fixed for the
future. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/

Agreed. Unfortunately, I didn't save enough detail before moving on. I 
will try to recreate and capture what I need.


Whew, that's a bad experience.

I'm not knowledgeable enough to help you, but there are some
experts on the list, so maybe they'll be able to help you recover.

It is because of potential experiences like yours that I always do
my upgrades to new versions while leaving my old version intact.
You could just create the new partitions, and rsync your old
version to the new partitions before doing the upgrade. Then, if
disaster strikes, you have a fallback position of a working system.

I usually use this laptop as my test machine. If it works here, then 
I'll run it on my other Fedora machines. For my main workstation, 
that's always done with a very cautious approach.


Maybe it's just me but I tend to have more issues with the odd 
numbered releases. Call my superstitious.


Anyway, last night I did a full re-install over this mess with a F25 
net install USB image and that failed as well. With this latest 
attempt I deleted and recreated all partitions except for the shared 
efi partition. I used a basic ext4 partitioning scheme (/boot; 
/boot/efi; /; swap). It seemed like the install was going well but on 
reboot it failed. From the logs, it appears the new grub config 
written by the installer is looking for a device UUID that doesn't exist.


Maybe I should clear out the /boot/efi/EFI/fedora directory before 
re-install?


This morning I ran one additional test. I did a fresh install from a 
F25 XFCE Live USB. This was successful, but it leaves me with a ton of 
reconfiguration and restoration work. Once I get everything up and 
running again I will do some additional tests with the F25 net 
installer to see if I can accurately document what happened.


-Brian



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I once remember a situation something like that happening to me way back 
when the latest version was F19. I had to take a more drastic approach, 
I completely backed up the entire system onto my external 2TB HDD, and 
blew away the drive completely with DBAN (D-arik's B-oot A-nd N-uke) 
then tried a fresh install of F19 and it WORKED!...I wouldn't suggest 
that now of course,...but I was tired and I was angry so I went Ninja on 
itLoL!



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Re: Touchpad Single Finger Scroll Not Working - Not Present

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On 11/14/2016 07:36 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:


On 11/15/16 08:06, EGO-II.1 wrote:


On 11/14/2016 02:28 PM, Fred Smith wrote:

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 09:07:21AM -0800, Chris Murphy wrote:

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 8:45 AM, EGO-II.1  wrote:

So I've been delving into the touchpad thing a bit more now that I have a
few days off. This is the output of libinput-list-devices:

I'm assuming that since all the necessary features I'm looking for are
listed as "N/A" then it means something is wrong? (Also because when I got
to "Test Your Settings" the option for Two Finger Scrolling is set to OFF
but there's STILL no single-finger scroll!...any help at all would be
greatly appreciated!

Two finger scroll off means two finger scroll doesn't happen. It
doesn't mean you get single finger scroll. I've never heard of single
finger scroll unless you click and hold the "shuttle" UI element
that's on the right side of a window that indicates what section of a
document you're viewing.

Dunno about the desktop the OP is using, but on Mate desktop  you have
an option of "edge scrolling" which is similar to grabbing the vertical
scrollbar with your rodent/mouse. that is single-finger-scrolling even
though that isn't its actual name.

I don't have a GNOME or KDE desktop handy to verify that they support
the same thing, but I believe I've seen it in Gnome previously.

Fred


I KNOW its there! I've used it before in F23,...hmmI guess I'll have to 
muck around
with the gsettings or some other Gnome-related file, but I WILL figure this 
out! Only
because I love Fedora over all the other distros!LoL!



This thread sounds like a rehash of a similar thread from back in August that 
you were
involved in.

My understanding is previous versions of Fedora used the synaptic driver for 
the touch
pad.  Now it is "xinput".  I suggested back then that you look into "xinput" and
"libinput".  I also pointed you to

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/W32B3CERZ75ISG3KVOYNBWVATFBYTMQL/

Did this turn out to be unhelpful?




Alas! I had tried those options, (including the script, but to no 
avail!) Its ok though, I've decided to retire this laptop. So It's not 
that big a deal. This machine is headed to CEntOS / Scientific Linux, as 
for Fedora, I'll continue to run it on my desktop (which has a mouse so 
the touchpad issue is moot!) Thanks for all the help and suggestions 
though, just one more reason why I'm a "Fedoran" for life!...


Cheers!


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Re: Touchpad Single Finger Scroll Not Working - Not Present

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On 11/14/2016 02:28 PM, Fred Smith wrote:

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 09:07:21AM -0800, Chris Murphy wrote:

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 8:45 AM, EGO-II.1  wrote:

So I've been delving into the touchpad thing a bit more now that I have a
few days off. This is the output of libinput-list-devices:

I'm assuming that since all the necessary features I'm looking for are
listed as "N/A" then it means something is wrong? (Also because when I got
to "Test Your Settings" the option for Two Finger Scrolling is set to OFF
but there's STILL no single-finger scroll!...any help at all would be
greatly appreciated!

Two finger scroll off means two finger scroll doesn't happen. It
doesn't mean you get single finger scroll. I've never heard of single
finger scroll unless you click and hold the "shuttle" UI element
that's on the right side of a window that indicates what section of a
document you're viewing.

Dunno about the desktop the OP is using, but on Mate desktop  you have
an option of "edge scrolling" which is similar to grabbing the vertical
scrollbar with your rodent/mouse. that is single-finger-scrolling even
though that isn't its actual name.

I don't have a GNOME or KDE desktop handy to verify that they support
the same thing, but I believe I've seen it in Gnome previously.

Fred

I KNOW its there! I've used it before in F23,...hmmI guess I'll have 
to muck around with the gsettings or some other Gnome-related file, but 
I WILL figure this out! Only because I love Fedora over all the other 
distros!LoL!



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Re: Touchpad Single Finger Scroll Not Working - Not Present

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On 11/14/2016 12:07 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 8:45 AM, EGO-II.1  wrote:

So I've been delving into the touchpad thing a bit more now that I have a
few days off. This is the output of libinput-list-devices:

I'm assuming that since all the necessary features I'm looking for are
listed as "N/A" then it means something is wrong? (Also because when I got
to "Test Your Settings" the option for Two Finger Scrolling is set to OFF
but there's STILL no single-finger scroll!...any help at all would be
greatly appreciated!

Two finger scroll off means two finger scroll doesn't happen. It
doesn't mean you get single finger scroll. I've never heard of single
finger scroll unless you click and hold the "shuttle" UI element
that's on the right side of a window that indicates what section of a
document you're viewing.


I used to be able to dingle-finger scroll using F23, so in between then 
and now what's changed? I'm still using a Lenovo T-420 with an i5 and 
8GB of RAM, si it must be something with the OS? absolutely nothing's 
changed with my hardware. Hmminteresting.to say the least!



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Touchpad Single Finger Scroll Not Working - Not Present

[EGO-II.1]

So I've been delving into the touchpad thing a bit more now that I have 
a few days off. This is the output of libinput-list-devices:


I'm assuming that since all the necessary features I'm looking for are 
listed as "N/A" then it means something is wrong? (Also because when I 
got to "Test Your Settings" the option for Two Finger Scrolling is set 
to OFF but there's STILL no single-finger scroll!...any help at all 
would be greatly appreciated!



Thanks!



EGO II



[root@jaunt-2019]# libinput-list-devices
Device:   Power Button
Kernel:   /dev/input/event2
Group:1
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock:n/a
Left-handed:  n/a
Nat.scrolling:n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration:  n/a
Scroll methods:   none
Click methods:none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Accel profiles:   n/a
Rotation: n/a

Device:   Video Bus
Kernel:   /dev/input/event6
Group:2
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock:n/a
Left-handed:  n/a
Nat.scrolling:n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration:  n/a
Scroll methods:   none
Click methods:none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Accel profiles:   n/a
Rotation: n/a

Device:   Sleep Button
Kernel:   /dev/input/event1
Group:3
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock:n/a
Left-handed:  n/a
Nat.scrolling:n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration:  n/a
Scroll methods:   none
Click methods:none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Accel profiles:   n/a
Rotation: n/a

Device:   Integrated Camera
Kernel:   /dev/input/event15
Group:4
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock:n/a
Left-handed:  n/a
Nat.scrolling:n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration:  n/a
Scroll methods:   none
Click methods:none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Accel profiles:   n/a
Rotation: n/a

Device:   AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
Kernel:   /dev/input/event3
Group:5
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock:n/a
Left-handed:  n/a
Nat.scrolling:n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration:  n/a
Scroll methods:   none
Click methods:none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Accel profiles:   n/a
Rotation: n/a

Device:   SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
Kernel:   /dev/input/event4
Group:6
Seat: seat0, default
Size: 58.88x32.50mm
Capabilities: pointer
Tap-to-click: disabled
Tap-and-drag: enabled
Tap drag lock:disabled
Left-handed:  disabled
Nat.scrolling:disabled
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration:  n/a
Scroll methods:   *two-finger edge
Click methods:none
Disable-w-typing: enabled
Accel profiles:   none
Rotation: n/a

Device:   TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint
Kernel:   /dev/input/event5
Group:7
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: pointer
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock:n/a
Left-handed:  disabled
Nat.scrolling:disabled
Middle emulation: disabled
Calibration:  n/a
Scroll methods:   *button
Click methods:none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Accel profiles:   flat *adaptive
Rotation: n/a

Device:   ThinkPad Extra Buttons
Kernel:   /dev/input/event7
Group:8
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock:n/a
Left-handed:  n/a
Nat.scrolling:n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration:  n/a
Scroll methods:   none
Click methods:none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Accel profiles:   n/a
Rotation: n/a

[root@jaunt-2019]#
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Re: Worried About Swap - MISSING?

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On 11/09/2016 06:24 PM, Rami Rosen wrote:


Hi,
Patrick is right. Fedora 25 is scheduled for only next week, 15
of November. See:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/25/Schedule
Regards,
Rami Rosen

בתאריך 9 בנוב 2016 23:18, "Patrick O'Callaghan" <mailto:pocallag...@gmail.com>> כתב:


On Wed, 2016-11-09 at 15:16 -0500, EGO-II.1 wrote:
> I have been using Fedora 25 happily now since it's release,

What release? AFAIK F25 has not been released yet. Discussion should
stay on the Fedora Test list until it has actually been released.

poc
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My apologies, I didn't realize that it hadn't been released already. 
Seems I've been using a beta? I'll just clam up about the touchpad until 
its officially unleashed on the masses! LoL!



Cheers!


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Worried About Swap - MISSING?

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I have been using Fedora 25 happily now since it's release, but when I 
happened to run /etc/fstab while trying to "find" a USB stick I noticed 
this output:


 Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
/dev/mapper/fedora-root /   ext4 defaults1 1
UUID=a305554f-e0cf-47dc-8f9b-b8799276038d /boot ext4defaults1 2
/dev/mapper/fedora-home /home   ext4 defaults1 2
/dev/mapper/fedora-swap swapswap defaults0 0
/etc/fstab (END)

My question is: Should I be worried that it's NOT showing a SWAP 
partition? And could thi be why this laptop which has sufficient RAM is 
kind of slow? And finally how would I go about adding a swap partition 
from the command line (as opposed to a GUI...trying to learn how to do 
more in the magical "Little Black Box"!) Any help offered would be 
greatly appreciated.



Thanks In Advance

EGO II
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TouchPad.....

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Hello all, hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

I recently upgraded from F23 to F24, and now for some strange reason my 
touchpad on my Lenovo ThinkPad T420 doesn't edge scroll anymore. I've 
tried looking online for a solution but none of them work. Can someone 
point me in the right direction as to what I should be looking for? Any 
help with this is greatly appreciated!



Cheers!






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Re: Edge Scrolling Gone After Update...

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On 08/06/2016 01:40 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:


On 08/06/16 13:10, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:

Hello all,

It's been a while since I've had to come here and inquire about the Fedora OS, 
but I'll
keep this short and to the point.

Hardware: Lenovo ThinkPad T-420 - i5 - 8GB RAM - 320GB HDD

I was running F23until the Gnome Software app told me that there was an 
update for
F24..which I spent just about all night waiting to finish. Everything went 
well (I
assume?) because it rebooted after the update and everything LOOKED 
ok.until I fired
up Firefox and could not single-finger / edge scroll down the page. This wasn't 
the part
that "hurt"it was when I went to "Settings" and then "Mouse & Touchpad" and
discovered THERE'S NO OPTION TO ENABLE THOSE SETTINGS! So my question is simple:

What must I do to have those features return? Is there a script?...a 
download?...some
".conf" file I need to manipulate to get this to work again? I appreciate any 
and ALL
help offered for this problem!!


You'll need to research "xinput" and "libinput"

See this from the archives concerning how to enable/disable the touchpad using 
"xinput"

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/W32B3CERZ75ISG3KVOYNBWVATFBYTMQL/

And, FWIW, I use

xinput --set-prop 14 "libinput Tapping Enabled" 1

to enable tapping on my Acer's touchpad.

I've not looked at the needed commands to modify scrolling methods.



Cool! Thanks!...I will sift through this info and see what helps!!

Cheers!





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Re: End of 32-bit support?

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On 01/20/2015 07:15 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:

On 01/20/2015 01:53 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:

On 01/20/2015 03:26 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:

The 64-bit platform supports 32-bit wine.


You cannot run Win32 PE binaries with 64-bit wine. Wine does not emulate
( ;) ) arches.


I know that.  32-bit Wine is available on the 64-bit Fedora 
platform/release.



I don't think 32-bit architecture will be going away permanently until 
the hardware and device manufacturers cease to build them. Until that 
time I think it's feasible to continue to support 32-bit along with 
64-bit. It just makes sense in a way, since not everyone is in 
possession of a 64-bit machine whether desktop or laptop. I myself only 
have 2 64-bit devices, but my main machine is STILL the Gateway Intel 
Pentium Duo-Core T6321 laptop!and it's survived going from F15 thru 
to F21 with no problems!...



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Re: current laptop recommendations

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On 01/09/2015 01:50 PM, Roger Wells wrote:

On 01/09/2015 08:43 AM, Ian Malone wrote:

Anyone have any good suggestions for a new laptop with good Linux
compatibility? My current one is about 8 years old (IIRC), not looking
for anything superspecced to replaced it, just annoyances like reduced
battery life and the wifi switch playing up are starting to build up
(plus people have poked the screen one too many times). It's a 13.3"
screen with 100GB hard drive and I guess I'd be hoping to find
something similar with a maximum budget of about £500.

I am a software developer and have used IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads for a 
long time always with Linux and excellent results.  Five so far, most 
recently I have used X Series X200, X220 and now X240.
Currently running Fedora 21.  (Fingerprint reader is not yet supported 
without difficulty but it was on the X220)


HTH

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401-849-1585 (fax)
roger.k.we...@leidos.com


I've tried the x230's I don't like 'em too much. But I too have been a 
user of Lenovo laptops for  years, they're truly tough laptops!!



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Re: current laptop recommendations

[EGO-II.1]

I don't know if this is "equivalent" to what you currently have, but I 
have a Lenovo T-420...it's not "new" as per se, but I've had it for 
quite some time and it's not given me any problems. (Its been in service 
since F-16) and I've had no problems with it. Plus parts for it are 
easily obtained online and its built tough. Bear in mind this is the 
"i5" CPU. HTH



Cheers!


EGO II



On 01/09/2015 08:43 AM, Ian Malone wrote:

Anyone have any good suggestions for a new laptop with good Linux
compatibility? My current one is about 8 years old (IIRC), not looking
for anything superspecced to replaced it, just annoyances like reduced
battery life and the wifi switch playing up are starting to build up
(plus people have poked the screen one too many times). It's a 13.3"
screen with 100GB hard drive and I guess I'd be hoping to find
something similar with a maximum budget of about £500.



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Re: Constant Guard Service Alert

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On 09/07/2014 12:40 PM, Doug wrote:


On 09/07/2014 09:29 AM, Bat Phil wrote:
When you say you got an "alert" do you mean an e-mail or an instant 
message type alert?



/snip/


On 7 September 2014 13:55, Mickey > wrote:


Then as a Linux user it does not apply to me or do I have to
remove it and How ?




On 09/06/2014 08:47 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote:

Interesting, I got an alert at 6:33PM.  My PCs are OSX, Linux
Mint and SolydXK with assorted VMs.  I'm scanning, but I wonder
if there is a malfunction as the bot detected was Windows
related.  Go to: https://amibotted.comcast.net/.  My output reads:



Bot Notes:

Threat behaviors:  Downloads rootkits and steals sensitive
information.
Threat type (intent): Information Stealer (Information Theft &
Sublease tool).
Alternate names: W32.Rootkit /W32.Alureon/
W32.Renos/W32.TDSS/W32.DNSChanger
Threat behavior description:
The TDL/TDSS Gang (aka., Tyler Durden Loader). The TDL rootkit is
a Master Boot Record (MBR) infector, targeting Microsoft Windows
systems. The latest TDL rootkit is currently Version 4, and
utilizes MBR hooking, a process that deceives a user by appearing
to have been initially deleted. Upon a system restart, the
rootkit/trojan is re-installed. This provides the remote attacker
highly persistent backdoors into victim systems. Public research
estimates the TDL/TDSS group to have been in operation since
mid-2008.

Observed traits:
The TDL/TDSS rootkit has been observed spreading via spam and
phishing e-mails. The observed stages of infection are as follows:

Infect a victim (Stage 1) via spam, drive-by-downloads, and
malicious attachments.Wait idle until the Stage 2 Trojan is ready
for download.
Load a rootkit Trojan (Stage 2).
Alter the system to obfuscate Stage 1 and 2 infections (Stage 3).
Infect other sites, allowing third-party access to sensitive
information.

Capabilities:
After an initial infection, the Stage 2 rootkit is normally
loaded via a fast-flux worm. Once the infection has passed to
Stage 3, various other threats (such as ZeusBot, Buzus, RogueAV,
PoisonIvy, etc.) may be installed and utilized by criminal
operators. The authors behind the RudeWarlockMob are members of a
professional criminal organization that also offers affiliate
funding to anonymous distribution providers, infection operators,
and other criminals.

Times Seen: 23



/snip/

I am not on comcast, and I use Windows only occasionally, but the 
question was not answered, to wit: how would someone tell if he had a 
rootkit in windows,
and if he found out that he did, what would be the most effective way 
to remove it, short of reinstalling the system, of course. Preferably 
without

paying for the privilege!

--doug


Don't know if this is what you were looking for or asking about but 
check these out?...I don't use anything but Linux so I don't know what 
the equivalent would be.but these might be useful in some way.



https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/kb20100824120155EN_EndUserProfile_en_us

http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/solutions/5353

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/data-center/rootkits-is-removing-them-even-possible/ 




HTH


EGO II


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Re: Desktop Sharing from Windows 8.1

[EGO-II.1]

On 06/11/2014 12:43 AM, Tim wrote:

On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 13:37 -0400, Temlakos wrote:

I keep getting notices like this:
  
"Desktop Sharing: refused uninvited connection attempt from..."

followed by an IP address and port number. The IP address is that of
the Windows 8.1 machine, which seems to be trying a different port
each time.

Generally, that means the desktop interface (your windows, menus, mouse
and keyboard) can be remotely controlled/accessed from another computer.
So, using your Linux computer, you could act as if you were using your
Windows computer, or vice versa.

If you don't need that functionality, then deny it, and go through
reconfiguring your Windows machine to stop offering to share its
desktop.  Really, it shouldn't be making that attempt unless you
initiate it.  If it's doing it automatically, I wonder if you have a
compromised Windows box.


A compromised WINDOWS machine?is that even POSSIBLE!?...LOL! 
(Sorry!I just COULDN'T resist!)



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