How safe is running from hard drive?

[musher0]

Hi, 8-bit

Euh... running a W. program through wine on Linux is NOT the same thing as running a
W. program directly in Linux. You simply can't run a W. program directly in Linux. Try it
and you'll see: nothing will happen.

I'd suggest a search in the Internet about your problem to be sure, but it would be logical
that the malware thinks it's running on a real W. system and try to attack the wine structure.

But once out of wine, back in your real Linux, the malware can't do anything: it's not the
same folder structure, and W. executables just won't run in Linux.

BFN.

musher0

[musher0]

HI, barkin.

You mean ANTI-keylogger addon, yes?

No an actual keylogger addon for Firefox, not ant-keylogger ...

Keylogger 1.6
by Lipo-Codes

About this Add-on
This addon logs (writes down) every single key press performed on the computer while surfing the Firefox browser.

https://addons.mozilla.org/EN-US/firefox/addon/keylogger-220858/

But why would I want to spy on the keys I myself type... ? Unless I'm a nutcase...

[mikeb]

Unless I'm a nutcase...

Well we wanted to say something but was looking for the right moment

[Sylvander]

This goes along with the problems I had been having with my Desktop in locking up and getting blue screen crash dumps in windows as well as lockups there too.

And I have checked the hard drives, processor, and memory with tests from the Windows recovery manager, chkdsk in windows and using e2fsck in linux.

And I still think some nasty has gotten onto one or both of my drives.

Lets say you had 1 or more "improper-poweroff" events...
Then you scanned and fixed the PFS [partition-filesystem], so that the PFS was now OK...
The act of scanning&fixing might create "orphan file fragments", so that the folder/file system might then have gaps or missing portions, so would no longer function fully [not function as it aught]...
Since certain files are incomplete.
The way to then fix that would be to restore...
Perhaps an image backup ...
Or scan&fix the PFS then restore all of the partitions' folders/files [I normally use Puppy->Xfe to do this].
Whatever would return a good/complete folder/file/PFS system.

I am currently running from a CD boot of Puppy 5.7.1 with one session save to the CD and NO lockups at all when running that way.

Which suggests [that at least] the PFS is OK.

[musher0]

Unless I'm a nutcase...

Well we wanted to say something but was looking for the right moment

Funny guy!

[musher0]

@Barkin

You suggested to turn off javascript. Well, if I do, I can't access my webmail account
from my opera browser. Any ideas about how to go around this?

Thanks in advance.

musher0

[musher0]

Hi!

@ all

I've been studying the man for chmod and came up with the following, as a refinement
of my previous post on the subject. Any ideas as to how to improve this little script are welcome. (Since this is not exactly intuitive...)

Code: Select all

# Exercise 1)
# Specify user only permissions for a folder named "Documents" in /root.

# Step 1
chmod -v -R uga-rwx /root/Document # Remove all rights to anyone for the folder and all the files in it, in verbose mode.
# Step 2
chmod -v -R u+rw /root/Document # Give back read and write rights to the user only for the folder and all files in it, in verbose mode.
# Step 3
chmod -v u=rwx /root/Documents # Give back search rights to the user only for the folder, in verbose mode.
####
# Exercise 2)
# Specify user only permissions for all folders in /root.

# Step 1
chmod -v -R uga-rwx /root # Remove all rights to anyone for the folder and all the files in it, in verbose mode.
# Step 2
chmod -v -R u+rwx /root # Give back read, write, and search or execute rights to the user only for the root folder and all files in it, in verbose mode.

(Corrected Jan 27, 2014: last line in the code above should have read /root, not /root/Documents. Sorry about that.)

Thanks in advance.

musher0

[version2013]

@Barkin

You suggested to turn off javascript. Well, if I do, I can't access my webmail account
from my opera browser. Any ideas about how to go around this?

Thanks in advance.

musher0

I use Seamonkey with addon "NoScript".
I put sites I allow javascript to run in the "NoScript" whitelist.

It appears Opera has several addons with similar capabilities, e.g. Script Defender.

[Barkin]

@Barkin

You suggested to turn off javascript. Well, if I do, I can't access my webmail account
from my opera browser. Any ideas about how to go around this?

Thanks in advance.

musher0

I use ... addon "NoScript". I put sites I allow javascript to run in the "NoScript" whitelist.

Ditto

There seem to be alternatives to NoScript for Opera , which have a whitelist system, (only websites on the whitelist are permitted to use JavaScript FlashPlayer JavaApplets etc), but I've never tried these alternatives to NoScript.

[Barkin]

But why would I want to spy on the keys I myself type... ? .

The suggested uses were spying on the other members of the household.

However Keylogger could be used ethically : imagine you've filled in an on-line form only for something to go wrong,
you can retrieve a copy of what you've typed from the keylogger rather than type-in all the data again.

[mikeb]

I want a keylogger so I can analyse how my horrendous typos keep happening. Like where did the z key come in when I should have pressed p

ypurs zatiently

mike

[musher0]

I want a keylogger so I can analyse how my horrendous typos keep happening. Like where did the z key come in when I should have pressed p

ypurs zatiently

mike

Jello, mikeb

Maybe a typing tutor would do a better job of it? Here's a short list:
http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20100 ... utors.html

Hust a thought!

musher0