Join the fight against malicious commands given to new users

[aysiu]

I'm speaking on my own behalf and not for the whole forum staff, but I do hope the rest of the staff agrees with me.

We have posted a sticky about this in Absolute Beginner, but malicious spammers still manage (before being banned) to sneak in their "advice" deleting new users' entire installations.

Most people do not read stickies (I have to confess--I don't either). So the best way to combat this is to educate through signatures.

If you are a regular helper in the support forums, I urge you to make some kind of note warning users to research the validity of commands given, to wait until another forum member or two validates commands given, or just to avoid the most obviously bad commands (like sudo rm -rf /).

If you do not want to participate in this educational crusade, don't bother being a naysayer--just don't participate. If you are willing to make a change in your sig, though, that would be great.

[RAV TUX]

Originally Posted by aysiu I'm speaking on my own behalf and not for the whole forum staff, but I do hope the rest of the staff agrees with me. We have posted a sticky about this in Absolute Beginner, but malicious spammers still manage (before being banned) to sneak in their "advice" deleting new users' entire installations. Most people do not read stickies (I have to confess--I don't either). So the best way to combat this is to educate through signatures. If you are a regular helper in the support forums, I urge you to make some kind of note warning users to research the validity of commands given, to wait until another forum member or two validates commands given, or just to avoid the most obviously bad commands (like sudo rm -rf /). If you do not want to participate in this educational crusade, don't bother being a naysayer--just don't participate. If you are willing to make a change in your sig, though, that would be great.

I'm in full support editing my signature now!

[-grubby]

I was just about to start a thread on this...anyways I've already changed my signature so I'm good to go

[Vadi]

It was bound to happen sooner or later.

Let's hope it goes away soon, meanwhile, I copied your sig on that.

[dasunst3r]

I'll be sure to report any malicious commands I see to you mods so you can ban their @$$es. But hey... let God deal with those people, for karma is a *****, and may their hard drives crash the next day.

[jflaker]

Originally Posted by aysiu I'm speaking on my own behalf and not for the whole forum staff, but I do hope the rest of the staff agrees with me...........SNIP

DONE.....what do you think of this one?

[aysiu]

Originally Posted by jflaker If someone asks you to sudo rm -rf anything don't do it. Please wait for confirmation from other members, as one user already had their system deleted due to malicious advice of a TROLL, who has since been banned from this site.

That's great.

[hellion0]

I don't post in any helping capacity much, but I'm willing to spread the word.

[KiwiNZ]

You have my full support Aysiu.

We need to stop these clowns as it will set the movement back and really damage the reputation of Linux .

[p_quarles]

Has this been happening since that one troll was flooding the ABT forum? I had a note during the attack, but I'm happy to make it permanent. Off to edit it now.