Apparently, download sites for Adobe Flashplayer are a target by 'malware merchants', and the 'buggy Flashplayer' that results is not detected by conventional antivirus software or other anti-malware. 

Therefore, should I avoid Flashplayer in Linux and use HTML5 instead or are Linux users relatively immune to the 'buggy Flashplayer'? 

If I should set HTML5 as the default player, could you give me a few pointers on how I should go about this for Linux Lite?

Many thanks for your continued support.
Regards
Mike 

I'm so sorry if this is in the wrong forum, hella lost to be honest haha.

Okay. So here's the scenario, a bit of a long one.
For two days I have struggled to get my father's fubar'd laptop running. Something nuked the hard drive and made it unusable.
I've been running off of various thumb drives containing Linux (most notably Puppy tbh) for about seven years, it was a piece of cake. I made a live USB for him to try Lite, he liked it, I went to install it on the thumb drive. Apparently in the way that Lite partitions things, it only gave him 6gb to work with and most of it was used up by OS. There were about 349834983 issues and in the end, I just took the live DVD I burned and a new, fresh 32gb drive to install it onto on my own PC as compared to his laptop.
This time, unlike the other installs, I had no errors. No bootloader issues like I had previously encountered, it was perfect.
I gave it to my dad to try on his laptop, which has FAR better hardware than my terrible PC (3ghz processor and 8gb ram iirc, compared to my 2ghz and 6gb ram), and it's oddly sluggish. The other three installs (live USB, live CD and the semi-working thumb drive that only had a little space to work with) were relatively fast, but this one is a little slow. It locks up if I try to load programs, or takes a few seconds to load them. Dad said it's fine so it's no rush, I'm just wondering if I can fix this and if so, how? please don't say another install im crying im pleading im begging the install screen is something im gonna see in my nightmares at this rate

I write this from my Windows 7 laptop as my desktop that has both Linux Lite and Linux Mint 17 has now become so slow over the past week that its almost unusable - and both systems are affected (or should I say, infected?).  Like most people, I thought I didn't have to worry about viruses and Trojans with Linux - but I see from these recent postings that a very nasty Trojan virus out of Russia is affecting Linux systems everywhere. 

Those reading this may wonder why do I suspect I might have Fisbis?  Well, the most obvious is the very sudden slow down in both Linux Lite and Linux Mint over the past week or so and all three browsers (firefox, midori, and tor) are constantly crashing even though I have only an ad-blocker add-on.  My computer is behaving like it has a virus or some type of malware - and I think it might be Fisbis. 

So how did I get Fisbis?  Well, on Feb 11, 2016, an article came out extolling the features of the free email service called Yandex - that comes out of, you guessed it, Russia.  (On Feb 15th, news hit the internet about the Fisbis Trojan - but of course I didn't know about this at the time.)  In the process of testing out Thunderbird on Linux Lite I didn't want to use my official email account, so i thought I would set up a separate free email account on Yandex using a POP3 on Thunderbird email.  Meanwhile, on the Linux Mint OS, I set up a Yandex free email account using a POP3 on Evolution email. 

The server for Yandex email - as well as their free Yandex web browser, unlimited online storage starting at 10 GB, integration with Yandex Disk, e-Cards, and a whole bunch of other goodies - it all comes out of Russia.  I have to admit, two weeks ago, as I was setting up the free email service (which was all I wanted anyway), I had a twinge of "Gee, should I be doing this????"  Of course, in the process of setting up your free email account you get to choose your wallpaper ....."Oh boy, what a swell looking picture of the Kremlin....." - and now my feet are getting cold, but I'm too far in, though I have to admit, the beautiful pictures of deep outer space - probably from the Russian Space Station - did make me feel slightly better and set my geekly heart a flutter.  Yup, they sure do know how to reel ya in.....

Of course, the easiest way to get rid of this would be to do a fresh install of both Linux Lite and Linux Mint and totally nix Yandex altogether - which is probably what I will do eventually. 

However, before taking this final step, is there any way to test my suspicion that I've been infected with Fisbis (or something else equally nasty)? 

Also, other than avoiding anything coming out of Russia, how can Linux users protect themselves from these kinds of threats?

Hi,

I spent about 5 hours last night trying to clone a hard drive from a working LL2.8 system and wanted to put the cloned drive in a 2nd machine. I tried a whole bunch of things like clonezilla, unetbootin, command line using sudo dd, but I couldn't seem to get anything that would boot properly. The drive I am cloning works fine both in the 1st computer and also in the 2nd machine. I had a backup I did on the working drive with SystemBack and since I wasn't getting anywhere I thought I'd try installing the system using that. After doing that, I do bootup from that drive I installed the system on but it spits me out at an initramfs prompt, it says the UUID doesn't exsit. I guess the UUID from the first drive is still there and not the new drive's one. Can this install be salvaged at all ?

If you have any ideas or suggestions for me to try please let me know as I am at a loss at what to do next.

Thanks,

Glin22

I still roam in Windows now and again....
On occasion after downloading a file, I have to find my notes to verify a checksum... I thought how many Windows refugees are here and are wanting to confirm they have downloaded a valid or complete LL ISO file semi-easily or without installing another application in order to do so...

The below requires Powershell to be installed; which is by default in Win7 and up; Vista may but I haven't tested...

The below code will check your hash - you need both the file and the hash..

Change the path to match the path of the downloaded file on your system
Paste the hash from the hash file into between the quotes.. Do not delete the quotes

Launch PowerShell then copy and paste your code into PowerShell hit enter..
Wait a few seconds if it checks out "OK" will be displayed. If prompt is returned (no ok)
- confirm correct path to file (may want to omit spaces --i.e. C:\file.iso vs C:\docs and files\file.iso)
- check that you have entered the hash correctly (if manually entered) or download the file again...

I found this code a while back (good ole google) and of the times I've used it, its has worked each time...
;D

What I did was open web browser to change WiFi password typed in address 192. then browser shutdown when i hit enter.
computer froze so rebooted.


Got this popup when I login when I click close I had black screen white arror.
I  used a live image of LL on data stick looked at my hard drive partition 217 and used 206.


I tried to delete files off partition also tried to move files can't seem to do in a live LL, I looked at permissions they grayed out.
Open Terminal sudo su then password thought this give me admin rights to change partition to hard drive.


Also though LL would told me hard drive was filling up.


Thanks again for help.




PS what new theam

Linux Mint have a usb formater and a usb writer could these or similar be available  for LL
the opensuse imagewriter  has been ported by some distros is that possible for LL
unetbootin has proved problematical on many machines /distros

Enjoying the LL experience more and more as I use it

Many Thanks
mike

This is a small board ~ Very Small
Sneeze and you will loose it...

I am going to sell a machine with LL installed on it and would prefer to nuke the HDD and perform a reinstall before selling, and I was wondering if it could be done without performing the normal new install procedure using a bootable USB, etc.

Can I perform a reinstall/"factory reset" using the command prompt or some other method? Thank you in advance!

So I had some time on my hands today and was looking through my Whiskermenu on my old Acer AspireOne Netbook which is running LL 2.6 (which has been running LL for a year or more without any issues) and I found that after removing Google Chrome 32 bit browser (and replacing it successfully with Chromium), evidently there was a left over Google Apps entrie in the Internet section of the Whiskermenu that was nonfunctional. So I decided to remove it.  When Right Clicking on the entry, there was not a delete option present, only Add to Desktop, Add to Favorites  and Add to Pane I think.

So I did some research and found that I could go into /home/dan/.local/share/applications/ folder and I located an entry called Chrome-app-list.desktop and remove it, (I moved it to the trash can in case I needed it back) and sure enough, the dead entry was removed when I checked the Whiskermenu again. 

I saw several other Google Chrome type entries with .desktop extensions in there as well, so I moved all of them to the Trash just in case I needed them back.  I checked the menu and everything looked fine.  I continued looking at menu entries and found an entry for Midori Speed Dial page which I clicked on and it opened a new blank page, so I decided to remove that entry by Right clicking on Menu>Edit Applications>Internet> and located the item, then accidentally double clicked on the check mark and my mouse jumped, so I'm sure I clicked on something else, but when I did, the Main Menu screen disappeared which I thought was odd.  I then right clicked Menu>Edit Applications again to open the Main Menu to see if I had really unchecked the item and the Main Menu window would not open.

I then left clicked on the Menu button and to my surprise, ALL Menu Category entries were missing except Favorites and Recently Used, and both of those sub menu's were empty as well.  The menu looks correct in every other way, and the blank entry window at the bottom is still there and the All Settings, Lock Screen, Switch Users and Log Out icons are still there and functional, but all of my other items are missing.  I have no idea what I did, but it looks like it did it good...

Creating a new Menu Item in the task bar appears and acts exactly the same as the normal Menu button, so I removed it.

I attempted to reinstall the Whiskermenu using the apt-get install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin, but that did not seem to change anything.  So I'm at a loss as to where to go from here.

I can login as another user on the same PC and the menu works fine, however that user is rarely used, so of course the menu items are different than my main user.

Any suggestions would be appreciated...

Thanks !

SOLVED - UPDATE 10:30PM, Apr 2, 2016

After reviewing all of the obvious stuff, I was unable to get this resolved, so I decided to start comparing files between this Acer Netbook and another ASUS Desktop machine I built that is also running LL 2.6  (I have 4 PC's running Linux Lite at this time)

After about an hour of hunting, I found that the xfce-applications.menu file located in my  /home/dan/.config/menus/ folders were different between the two machines.  The file on the Netbook was 0 bytes in size and the one on the ASUS PC was 7.6kB in size.  So I simply copied the file on the ASUS Machine to a shared directory on my home network and then logged into that shared folder from the Netbook.  I copied the file from the shared folder and pasted it into the /home/dan/.config/menus/ folder on the Netbook and saved it. 

I then simply left clicked on the Menu button and to my surprise, all of my menu items were back!!!!  (Well, at least I think they are all there, I haven't gone through every single one of the items yet, but it looks like it did before everything disappeared. Also, the Menu>Edit Applications>Main Menu works again as well.

I'm one Happy Camper tonight for sure!!!

Anyway, if anyone else runs into this problem, you might try doing this or even install a basic version of LL on another hard drive, then go grab this file in your home directory and copy it to your problem PC. 

Hope this helps someone else down the road.

Have a great day!

Tenderfoot