[kwlug-disc] Ransomware in Gentoo

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Scrolling down a bit in the comments.

He used Firefox as root, then probably clicked on a link or ad that had
malware in it. That replaced his Python executable with the ransomware
thing.

I never ran antivirus on Linux either.

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Joe Wennechuk <
youcanreachmehere at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I saw this link on reddit. https://forums.gentoo.org/
> viewtopic-t-1060828.html
>
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> I have never run any antivirus or anything on my linux box. Does anyone
> know how this got into this users machine, and/or how I should be
> protecting my home, and work environments using Linux?
>
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>
>
> Joseph Wennechuk
> Phone: (226) 505-4812
> https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joseph-wennechuk/4/b59/382
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