On 19/12/19 1:01 am, Peter Wolf via luv-beginners wrote:
residential computers (which are probably mostly hacked and used as bots to hack other computers) and rented servers.
Hi Peter, I've never used mint but your post draws me to this comment. Are you saying that there are computers on your home/work network that you suspect are hacked? If so then cleaning these first would also be wise. I find it very strange that in a typical environment that hackers/bots manage to jump your router's firewall so successfully that they propagate to you so quickly. Perhaps the router is compromised and that is the source of the hacks? FF should be OK - are there plugins that you use that may contribute to it? If you use a different browser do you have the same issue? Cheers P