D&C GLug - Home Page

[ Date Index ] [ Thread Index ] [ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]

Re: [LUG] viruses and protecting against them

 

So it first showed with Libreoffice not opening files. On further investigation and a little internet searching I tried opening it from the command line (soffice) and it seemed to be trying to access a website from Turkey.
I installed ClamTK and scanned and the first scan started to show files from my recently hacked and backed up website... then it shut down the computer.
A second scan showed lots of potential Trojan type infections, but not the ones originally shown... and at that point I decided to do a backup of everything(!?*) and do a clean re-install of Xubuntu 18.04LTS...
I'm a little anxious of what this virus was trying to do, or what information it might have relayed to it's perpetrator, but finding a file in the home folder entitled .sudo-as-admin-successful (or similar) was slightly concerning!
I do have some sensitive information that would fall under the GDPR. Not sure if I can be sure this was not compromised...
Ahh!
I'm very much out of my depth.
Any help will be very gratefully received!
Thanks to all.

Anthony



Pentiddy Logo. Pentiddy Woods / Pentiddy Woods newsletter

Attached files are likely to be open-document format (*.odt or *.ods).
Why? So as not to depend on one company for accessing my own data in future.
See:  https://www.documentliberation.org/
MS-Word may say 'damaged file' to discourage this but should open the attachment(s) anyway.

Pentiddy Natural Burials
Heartwood Creations
Pentiddy Community Woodland

-- 
The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG
https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list
FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq