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Using .xprofile was the solution.
Thank you

Following an upgrade my hidpi screen resolution has been downgraded to 800x600.

I can set the proper screen resolution by running the following commands:


xrandr --newmode "3840x2160_60.00" ...

My mistake, I didn't check the kernel versions properly.

Thank you both of you.

I had a kernel panic, I think due to a problem with the bcmwl-kernel-source package. I enabled focal-proposed...

I'm running 20.04. Grub detects the following kernels.




Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.8.0-36-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.8.0-36-generic
Found linux image:...

Brief update:

This is now being reported on other forums such as reddit and is a trojan linked to a Kodi addon. Users should check to see if ~/.config/autostart/dbus-daemon.desktop or similar...

Thank you to both.

TheFu, I tried your suggestion and the malware does not load under a different userid. I have copied across some files to a new userid and deleted the old one. No sign yet of...

I have detected a coin miner trojan on my computer. I noticed the CPU temperature was running very hot with one CPU core pegged at 100%. Running 18.04 development version with no PPAs enabled. It is...

I installed GPA (GNU Privacy Assistant) through Synaptic. It fails to launch correctly from the dash; however if run from the terminal via


sudo gpa

it works and displays multiple keys that I...

No, it appears to only infect Windows

From the MS threat encyclopedia:

... [Win32/Rammit] infects Windows executable files and HTML files, and drops and loads other malware, which may be...

xkeyscore is an NSA tool for searching and analysing data collected by intercepting internet traffic.

I believe that the tool runs on linux servers operated by the NSA. Regardless of what OS you...

I've installed haveged from the repos

http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/

My available entropy is normally in the range of 2500-3500 with this program.

The software is Gnunet version 0.9.5a (via subversion). I'm following the instructions here: https://gnunet.org/ubuntu1204-gnunetgtk

There is an earlier version in the repos but I've been unable...

Thanks for your swift replies.

I'm compliling some software from source and it recommends creating a new user and group prior to executing make and make install. The command


adduser <user>

does this but I don't really...

With the exception of the warning about 'unhide' I get the same results on running rkhunter and chkrootkit on my system.

Either both our systems have been compromised or you are in the clear.

I know there are a ton of threads on rkhunter and the large number of false positives it generates so I'm slightly hesitant to post this.

I've got lots of warnings about changed file properties...

If you just want to encrypt individual files what about gpg or gpa?

I've also played around with scrypt and bcrypt. The latter uses blowfish encryption. These are in the repos. scrypt claims to be...

Try the command


startx

I'm running Ubuntu on an Alienware M15x.

The only problem I have encountered is when stealth mode is enabled on the computer. This is a feature from Alienware that limits power supply to the GPU...

The command


ls -l

accesses /etc/passwd. Your encrypted password is stored in /etc/shadow. /etc/passwd is used to map user IDs to usernames. It is not a sign that Skype is trying to subvert...

Well, if you're going to change the passphrase to something else as soon as you get the email that's just about acceptable.

Unencypted email is like sending a postcard, anyone involved in any...

The Tor browser bundle is probably the easiest and safest way to use Tor.

Just download it, unzip it and start the shell script.

It's available here:
...

If you are using 12.04 LTS you will not automatically be offered the option to upgrade. Open the software center and click settings in the bottom left. Change 'Notify me of a new LTS release' to...

Try:


software-center

For anyone still having problems a solution is available here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1057000

if no current /etc/X11/xorg.conf then create one with this in it
Section "Device"
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