Tech/Computer advice from me

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Fear The Spear said:
Welcome to the 21st Century, BB
Better late, than never :)
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No worries, I did fine over the years. When you get those great discounts from business contracts, you take them. That particular contract was set to expire in a few months anyway. Last week was just a good jumping off point.
 
Firefox will start bogging you down after a while

Google Chrome is what I usually recommend now.
 
Need to copy a large file to disc. Any old rewritable do? If so any particular brand better than others?
 
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Win4us said:
Need to copy a large file to disc. Any old rewritable do? If so any particular brand better than others?
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You probably have it all sorted now, but you could even transfer the file to a usb flash drive, as long as the drive capacity is larger than the file. Even an external hard drive will do the trick.

I've done the 'trail'. I used to save on rewriteable media (cd, then dvd), then it was flash drives. Now, I have external hard drives all over the place.
 
EDIT - this has been solved.

SA, Can I bother you with an issue I'm having with it.
I did a virus scan with ClamTk, and it found something called PUA.Win.Exploit.CVE_2012_0110
The folder and file location is usr/share/mime/mime.cache.
But it says that it cannot quarantine, nor delete the file.
It won't let me do anything with it.
Do you know if the reason it can't do that, is because it's a "false positive" and actually a necessary file for the system or a program to operate, or because it's actually a virus which is so malicious that it cannot be cleaned up ?

I searched and basically all I could find was this page regarding the "file" but it doesn't seem to reveal anything on it

http://v.virscan.org/PUA.Win.Exploit.CVE_2012_0110.html
 
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Can you manually get to the file and delete it that way?
 
Can you rename it? If so, try adding the extension .old to it in order to make it obsolete
 
No I can't. When I right-click, the only options are

- Open with Other Applications
- Send To Mail Recipient (or other locations)
- Copy
- Create Archive
- Properties

I even tried to drag it into the trash bin, and it said "Unable to trash file. Permission denied"
 
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Update on the above :

What I ended up doing was re-installing the entire Ubuntu OS - which fortunately is very easy, and takes a fraction of the time that it takes other major OS's to re-install.
I then looked for the file and found the same exact file.
And then I scanned that file again, after the OS re-install, and the anti-virus t gave that same report for that file.
So, I concluded that it was actually a false positive.
 
Sorry about taking so long to get back to you, but we had a laptop crash, and then had to set up a new one.

I've done some research in to this (although it appears you have solved it yourself), but according to virus databases from different AV labs it refers to: This is a detection for malicious html files which exploit the CVE-use-after-free vulnerability found in Microsoft Internet Explorer, that could allow an attackers to download and run a malicious executable file on the system. Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 is affected. And other CVE infections stated on also: found in the Microsoft Windows NDProxy driver, that could allow attackers to run code in Kernel mode. The vulnerable systems are the running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003.

So, how I understand it, is that it has scanned files that were once opened with MS, and only affects MS systems. As you know, any virus that gets on to a linux based system, it has to be activated by the end user, so if you don't activate it, you won't have a problem. However, knowing your system has a virus can be unnerving, so it's advisable to scan everything that comes from another computer, especially if that system runs Windows.
 
That's interesting because I often open MS files in my Linux system, such as MS Excel or MS Word files.
They're old files that I work on, and use the Libre OfficeWriter program to open.

So, does this mean that I am at risk if I open those MS files ?
Or only if those files were created or opened recently, in an MS system, while that new virus had been out ?
 
Everyone is at risk every day. For example, I picked up a new computer on Monday, got it home, set it up, got it online, and before I had even installed an anti-virus program, a virus had got in. It took me a while to get rid of it, but it was something I didn't need. However, the difference between MS and Ubuntu is that the end user with Ubuntu has to click a virus file to make it executable, and thus, bring it alive whereas a virus on a MS system doesn't need any help to run - it just does as soon as it is downloaded.

You are safe unless you are a button clicker - 'Gee, I wonder what will happen if I click this?".
 
Just remember that my advice isn't always the right advice. I can only advise on my own experiences, and my advice re: virus' is just a stab in the dark. As I've NEVER had a virus when I had Ubuntu, I am only going on what is suggested by those who know more than me. Also, Google helped!
 
How do most people install new hardware, when they're running Ubuntu.
Every hardware I've seen in the store, doesn't say anything about running on Linux.
I've tried transferring hardware I already had to an Ubuntu system, or buying new hardware, and they never work on Ubuntu.
They require the installation CD to be run, but Ubuntu doesn't recognize the installation files on the CD.
The ones that I've had problems with are printers and Wifi Adaptors, for example, that won't seem to install or operate on Ubuntu.
Is there an alternative way to install the hardware ?
 
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