Re: [tlug] Repairing a Possible Attack - FIXED

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> CL writes:

8>< schnitt

> Jeez, you don't want to do that!  The file manager is Part of the
> Problem!

Oh, jeeze ... another FM I have to R ...

> Try this magic spell from Terminal:
>
>     rm -f <TRASH>/gnash-dbg.log
>     # Om mame padme hum Hail Mary full of Grace Hear O Israel the Lord ....
>
> where <TRASH> is the path to the trash directory (it's probably
> something like ~/.trash).  If that doesn't work, try it again as root.

So ... the incense sticks, bowl of salt, bottle of sake, and bowl of 
rice are not necessary, you're saying?  I let the goat and chicken go 
when I realized it wasn't network related.  I didn't really want to 
sharpen so many knives for just one PC, anyway.

BTW, trash is located at place deep in the tree.  Does the "~/.trash" 
syntax enable me to not have to type out the full path ... like I kept 
doing?  Having a background in programming tools that require full paths 
and addresses is looking more and more like a complete disadvantage ...

>  > I want my desktop back ...
>
> "The doctor said, 'Don't do that.'"

The list of Frank Zappa quotations appropriate to this situation is just 
too long ...

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All,

This is me from my desktop.  My laptop has returned to backup duty. 
Sorry about that miscue at the beginning of my panic attack.  I like to 
pride myself on Not Being Seen ("Mister CL Stand.Up.Please ... Mister CL 
has learned the first rule of Not Being Seen; Not Standing Up.") so, 
when things went Badly Wrong (tm) I immediately suspected that I'd been 
seen and hacked thanks to one of those nasty features in the new Firefox 
that they had to patch so quickly.

Fortunately, it was a runaway process.  Having a history in COBOL, I 
know all about these.  They are a fact of a previous life.  No worse 
than beating yourself over the head with a meat axe.

I ended up using Stuart L.'s suggested incantation while in command line 
mode.  After that, I had to re-start once in repair mode and then 
everything came back up as it had been Saturday evening.  However, there 
are also another 100Gb of "things" that are not there any more.  Since 
everything I normally use is running right I am ASS-uming that they were 
links to things that I really don't need.

As far as the rest ... I learned that some syntax I had learned with 
other languages was misspelled when trying to speak to Debian. 
Different word order and different spellings.

Thanks to all who helped.  That's a lot more beer I owe people.

--
CL