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A bit of googling suggests that BackDoor.Wirenet.1 is now detected by all the windows av scanners - including I would think, the Linux versions from clamav, comodo, bitdefender, avast etc.

It...

Good. Something else that might well help is decreasing the swappiness value.
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/speed

Just a thought - have you tried unity 2d option at login?

Removing the 3.2s has solved the problem.

Still don't know why the original 12.04.2 install put two kernels (3.2 and 3.5) on the machine (both are part of the 12.0.4.2 iso though).

Possibly...

Thanks for the replies.

What I can't understand is how the 3.2 kernel got onto the 64bit machine.

I guess it's possible that I actually installed from a 12.04.1 iso by mistake, but then can't...

I have two machines on which I installed 12.04.2 from the iso (ie from the same cd burn of it)

The first only updates kernel 3.5

The second updates 3.5 and 3.2 - though uname -r only shows 3.5....

Are you using clamav (terminal) or clamtk (gui)?

Clamtk has PUP/PUA enabled by default. Clamav default scan setting doesn't.

oldfred you are a star!:KS

parted found and restored my partition :)

many thanks
Dave

I have now tried 'ls' at the grub rescue prompt, and gone through all of the 'ls (hd0.msdosx)' combinations offered. None of them produces anything other than 'unknown filesystem'.

Other ideas...

Here is the bootinfoscript output.

Boot Info Script 0.61 [1 April 2012]


============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================

=> Grub2 (v1.99) is...

Bit more info in case it is any help:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units =...

Hello,
I have (or had) a dual boot setup - Ubntu 12.04.2 and W7.

I wanted to boot W7 into safe mode - so I hit F8 during start-up, as you do.

Unfortunatley, since I stupidly forgot this is now...

Have another look at the guide - you need port 53 tcp/udp for DNS. You may also need 67 and 68 udp for dchp.

Add simple rule - allow out, tcp - now find the port you want - 80 for http

If your question was for the OP - they are running Lubuntu, and Chromium is the default browser.

If your question was for the previous poster - me - a few reasons:
(i) I find Chromium faster than...

Why not just recommend your friend to ask for help on the avast forum? They have some excellent malware removal experts there, who can suggest the correct tools (including linux live cd's if needed)...

Well it's not really what I was expecting to see, but then I don't run Lubuntu.

If you want to see what I had to do to get Chromium working on Ubuntu have a look here....

I have read that sort of comment on eg the PCLOS forum http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,90479.msg758079.html#msg758079.
Some folks there have a beef with sudo being used otherwise to...

Do you by any chance have the default apparmor profile for Chromium set to enforce?
If so you may need to add a line or two for Chromium 25 - I did.

I have a machine where I need to include 'noapic' in boot options to get some distro's to resume from suspend. Probably very harware specific, but may be worth a shot?

I can only comment that it doesn't happen here on a much lower spec machine. I'n running Unity desktop though.

(I've assumed you meant Ubuntu Software Centre by 'Software Mgr'?)

Pleased to hear you've got it working-

and when you've learned more about apparmor perhaps you can let me know if the default firefox profile usefully confines the flashplayer plugin? I've not...

sudo aa-enforce /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.firefox

Unless you particularly want to scan for PUAs (and ClamAV seems more fussy about what is a PUA(P) than any other AV I've used), you could use the CLI method (clamscan -r). I believe it has default =...

As a relative newcomer to ubuntu, the extra things that I do from a security standpoint are:

Firefox and Chromium browser Apparmor profiles are set to to enforce.
I use the bitdefender...