On 7/7/25 06:02, Russell L. Harris wrote:
On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 08:47:22PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
After running Debian for nearly 30 years (and other distros prior to
that), my Linux server has been hit by a ransomware attack about 11
days ago.
Another machine running firewall sofware
Hello,
Has anyone taken the LPI Open Source Essentials certification? I am
scheduled to take it this Saturday, and am curious as to what others have
thought of the exam.
Tim
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On Sun, 2025-07-06 at 20:47 -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> I apologize for the length of this question.
>
> After running Debian for nearly 30 years (and other distros prior to
> that), my Linux server has been hit by a ransomware attack about 11
> days
> ago. I have backups, so nothing importan
Karl Vogel composed on 2025-07-06 23:28 (UTC-0400):
> I don't know the attack method, but I'd suspect smb first
I stopped running samba a year or more ago. If I have something to get onto
Windows, or something to get off of it, I boot Linux. That need is rare. It was
probably last year when I las
On Mon, Jul 07, 2025 at 04:02:26AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 08:47:22PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> > After running Debian for nearly 30 years (and other distros prior to
> > that), my Linux server has been hit by a ransomware attack about 11 days
> > ago.
>
> An
On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 08:47:22PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
After running Debian for nearly 30 years (and other distros prior to
that), my Linux server has been hit by a ransomware attack about 11
days ago.
Another machine running firewall sofware is cheap (in terms of
electricity, noise,
On Sun 06 Jul 2025 at 19:51:01 (+0200), Hans wrote:
> > But the regular trash folder? My first guess is "the user did
> > that" (of course without noticing: "modern DEs" are complex enough
> > to make such a scenario plausible). My second guess would be some
> > bug in the desktop environment (or i
>> On Sun 06 Jul 2025 at 22:55:22 (-0400), Rick Macdonald wrote:
> After running Debian for nearly 30 years (and other distros prior to that),
> my Linux server has been hit by a ransomware attack about 11 days ago.
> I have backups, so nothing important has been lost at this point.
That's the
Hans wrote:
> > But the regular trash folder? My first guess is "the user did
> > that" (of course without noticing: "modern DEs" are complex enough
> > to make such a scenario plausible). My second guess would be some
> > bug in the desktop environment (or in some extension thereof).
> >
> > Che
On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 07:33:19PM +0200, Marco Moock wrote:
> On 06.07.2025 19:10 Uhr Charles Curley wrote:
>
> > That smacks of imminent hard drive failure.
>
> Run badblocks to test the entire disk.
Sorry, folks. This is the totally wrong direction.
If anything, there might be file system in
> But the regular trash folder? My first guess is "the user did
> that" (of course without noticing: "modern DEs" are complex enough
> to make such a scenario plausible). My second guess would be some
> bug in the desktop environment (or in some extension thereof).
>
> Cheers
Yes, that is what I
On Sun, Jul 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM Charles Curley wrote:
>
> On Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:41:47 +0200
> Hans wrote:
>
> > As I have no access to the computer at the moment, what can I do?
> > What might cause this behaviour?
> >
> > This computer was well running for many years.
>
> That smacks of imminent
On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 11:06:42AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:41:47 +0200
> Hans wrote:
>
> > As I have no access to the computer at the moment, what can I do?
> > What might cause this behaviour?
> >
> > This computer was well running for many years.
>
> That smacks
On Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:41:47 +0200
Hans wrote:
> As I have no access to the computer at the moment, what can I do?
> What might cause this behaviour?
>
> This computer was well running for many years.
That smacks of imminent hard drive failure.
I hope he's got backups! If not, I'd shut the mac
Hi folks,
I have a freind and he ran into the problem, that almost all folders are
suddenly in trash after reboot, including "Documents", "Desktop", "My Music" ,
"My Videos" and so on.
He is swearing, he did nothing but reboot and I believe him.
Did anyone of you heard of this behaviour? I am
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