Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware?

2015-07-11 Thread lukefromdc
The issue he reported came from "safebrowsing" setting a Google "prefs" cookie that could not be individually deleted. It can be deleted by deleting ALL cookies, returns on next use of the browser with "safebrowsing" enabled. The "prefs" cookie gets special handling, you have to delete ALL cooki

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware?

2015-07-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 14:02:58 -0400, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: >4: go to about: config, enter the names "google" "facebook" and >"twitter" and delete all URL's except for any blacklists you may have >set. I don't remember what to disable in about:config at the moment, but disabling "block rep

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware?

2015-07-11 Thread lukefromdc
Thanks for the update about Ardour. That tells me never to install it in a network-connected machine. On 7/10/2015 at 5:01 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > >On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 13:03:13 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote: >>On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: >> >>> ALL software that reports

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware?

2015-07-11 Thread lukefromdc
One of the most important things you can do to protect yourself is to ensure that Google does not get your surfing history. If you use the "safebrowsing" database (phishing" protection), Google gets a record of every URL you attempt to reach. This is probably a major resource used by the FBI, NSA,

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] How wide spread is Linux spyware?

2015-07-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Begin forwarded message: Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 14:45:18 +0200 From: Ralf To: xubuntu-us...@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] "System program problem detected" On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 19:21:32 +0800, lukshun...@gmail.com wrote: >On Saturday, July 11, 2015 06:49 PM, Michael Höhne wrote: >