Malware?
Folks: For the last few days I've been receiving a spat of rejected e-mails; ones I did not send. So I installed ClamAV, and ClamTK and did a complete system-wide scan and came up with these two:
/usr/lib/mono/4.0/mscorelib.dll - UA win32 packerprivateexeprote-7 and /home/kcredden/.mozaillafirefox/yhm UA win32p packerprivateexeprote-7 Now, I told it to quarantine these files, it did the Mozilla one, but the one in mono was not. I assume I need to be in / to do that since it's /USR But let me ask; firstly are they malware? I cannot find this on goggle. #2: Would it be safe to rip this out? For that matter, do I even NEED mono? I did not install mono when I reinstalled the system. I'll do an image before I do anything risky of course but I wanted your opinion first. I'm very new to malware on linux. I feel a bit honored. 12 years on linux, first one. |
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- PUA stands for Potentially Unwanted Applications so it's not a virus but a definition of what some would call "unwanted". - If you don't trust a package or its contents then verify it against a clean copy from a known trustworthy repo. - (upload and) scan with another antivirus tool. *While I shouldn't speculate you'll likely find it's not a virus. That doesn't matter as it's knowing how to verify things that matters. Quote:
If unsure just try uninstalling Mono and see what b0rks ;-p Quote:
It may have been a dependency of Something Completely Different. |
the microsoft emulators can get Windows viruses
wine and the "dot net " mono and this is odd Quote:
that is NOT!!! the firefox folder that would look something like this Quote:
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