On 2019-12-19 16:03, Morrie Wyatt via luv-beginners wrote:
Hi Peter
Thanks for that,
If you or anyone else wants to test what I have been writing about ,do the following.
- Install Linux Mint 19 with default settings on your modern computer.
- Use firefox to visit the following website - https://www.idnes.cz/ (It's in google), and click a few of the links.Spend about 30 minutes on there.I know I wrote hacking occurs in a few minutes but lets give them a very good chance.
- Repeat a few times.
- Then check if the next software update works.
- If there are no symptoms of hacking then I'll consider myself totally wrong.
Thanks and good luck.
regards Peter
It may also be worth installing the "noscript" addon into Firefox. It makes websites a bit more fiddly to work with, but can keep a lot of the bad stuff at arms length.
You get to choose what "features" <cough!> of the plethora of analytics, tracking and other addware site and affiliates that infest the majority of websites are alowed to run.
Unfortunately if the site makes use of javascript, popups and popunders can still be launched.
(Just because I'm paranoid, it doesn't mean they are not out to get me!)
Regards,
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Hi I went to the site with a fresh 18.04.3 xubuntu install (don't have mint laying around). IMHO xubuntu probably better suited to older machines. Used firefox clicked on links followed mainly dakar hockey and mma links - no pop ups no hacking. Still have site open while I type this. Have attempted updates and they work fine. stayed on site for over 30 min. How do you connect to the internet ? Are you behind NAT ? Are you passing any ports through your internet router to your machine / other machines on network ? Do you have a static / dynamic IP address ? Did you get the install media - from reliable source with checksum ? How many machines on your network ? If more than one have you checked them all for root kits / virus ? Also try with a live CD made from your install media - does it have the same problem ? Try downloading (on a clean machine) media that you trust and can checksum - run this as live CD and see if it has the same problem. What DNS do you use (possible DNS poisoning) ? (try using firefox dns over https) Are you setting good passwords ? As people have stated it may be dodgy hardware, using a live CD to test the site would bypass a dodgy hdd. I understand that this can be frustrating but in general linux is pretty secure out of the box, hacks usually occur due to opening of ports followed by bad passwords. Stephen