Well it appears they were not really screensavers or themes after all. Instead they were DDoS related Malware.
The Gnome ‘waterfall’ Screensaver http://jamesfriesen.net/762
The Ninja Black Theme article http://jamesfriesen.net/f6q
A quick fix for these can be found on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1349801 and the gory details are http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1349678
This command below should remove the offending scripts for an infected machine. DO NOT run this unless you know you are infected.
sudo rm -f /usr/bin/Auto.bash /usr/bin/run.bash /etc/profile.d/gnome.sh index.php run.bash && sudo dpkg -r app5552
Well its an interesting story but not one that has been a true surprise. I found it interesting since there is so much controversy over the Apple App Store that this seems to be a catch-22 for Apple. What Do I mean? Let me outline.
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I recevied a rather interesting spam the other day and it would seem to have included some well private details. It looks like this email contains login information for various mail systems but I honestly did not follow up with it. I figured it may be of interest to the owners of these sites so I’m posting it here rather than attempt to start tracking abuse emails for various domains.
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If you are using Rythmbox and having trouble with getting windows shares to work, I found a neat workaround for this. I am using Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala which uses Gnome Desktop, and found a pretty simple solution, courtesy of launchpad.net which is the site where all bugs related to Ubuntu or any packages tracked back upstream can be filed, and hopefully solved. This bug isn’t specific to Ubuntu or Gnome, but is actually a bug with Rythmbox. You can read the bug at the link in this article, or simply follow these instructions.
From a shell or terminal (to open on click on “Applications” then “Accessories” then ‘Terminal’) copy and paste the following:
gnomevfs-ls smb://mywinpc/mymusic
Make sure before you hit enter to change ‘mywinpc’ to the actual NAME of the PC your share is located on, and ‘mymusic’ is changed to the name of the share your music is found. This step will then display some output and tell you to then enter the username to login, the WORKGROUP name, and of course your password. Once done it will majically mount the drive for you.
Now you should be able to start Rythmbox and select ‘Import folder’ and find this location readily available.
I wasn’t going to get into this too much since the download is one you’ll have to build and I didn’t want to go through all the motions to make this happen. But it appears someone has created a Virtual Machine (VM) you can use to try it out.
http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/download/ is the place to get it at. You will need to create an account on the site (free), download a copy of Chrome OS which they offer a link to do that and you’ll need a VM platform to get it working. VMWare is what it’s designed for, but VirtualBox can also use vmware images but there could be issues (not all work perfectly) as you’ll see from the site.
http://www.vmware.com/products/player — To Get Vmware Player. If you have a Mac you can use Fusion, and it should work find on other VMWare products.
http://www.virtualbox.org — To get VirtualBox, but I’d recommend installing it from your distributions repository for full support, other wise you’re on your own updating it and all that fun stuff.
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html — Source from Google, may have to jump through some hoops to download it
http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os — To Get Chrome OS ready to go.
Note: all these links can be found on gdgt.com directly from the first link in this article. I include them for convenience.
Also you can review TechCrunch’s web site that will give you some step-by-step instructions along with a torrent link to download it from also
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/19/guide-install-google-chrome-os/
Have fun!
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