A new interresting article by Richard M. Stallman, which might be worth your read, can be found at: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do
Sifting through some of the most popular blogs online, you’ll find countless articles about removing viruses,
Hello,
I tried to start a thread on this topic earlier, but it was closed. All the other threads on this topic seem to be closed too. So, I can't post this anywhere else.
Basically, I have a question about what Richard Stallman said here : http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do .
Is this spyware installed on ubuntu 12.04 too? Is ubuntu 12.04 affected?
Good to see the old warrior is still fighting the good fight:
Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do
Go Richard!!
I see SpywareGuard 2.2 touted as a good free real-time antimalware app that makes a great compliment to SpywareBlaster. But can anyone confirm that for me, and that it's definitely a different app than Spyware Guard 2008 & 2009? It had better be, because the latter is said to actually be a sophisticated rogue antispyware. Check these links out:
Hello,
I am creating this thread after getting really frustrated. The two other threads I started on this topic were closed before I got my question answered. I was asked to post in other threads on the topic which were all closed and my question was not answered in any of those threads either. I feel someone is stonewalling any discussion about this topic.
This morning, (last evening, American time), I posted a link to Stallman's rant on Ubuntu as spyware.
I did this, not to flame or abuse Ubuntu in any way, but to give opportunity for rebuttal and constructive comments from Ubuntu's loyal users.
I believe it is in Canonical's interests to understand what it's users want and/or find distasteful.
The post was promptly shut down.
I find this
Here is the tutorial on how to add and remove user accounts on Linux system. This tutorial is applied to all Linux distributions, I grabbed from other source;
Most of us need to work with creating/managing user accounts on a regular basis. System Administrators have to deal with this stuff on a regular basis.
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