Linux MInt17 Infection

[pcpunk]

I visited a site that had a poor web reputation by avast while in LMM17. When I went to shut-down laptop I could not do so and had to force a shutdown. At first I logged onto website by accident, but after seeing that it was such well informed site I thought I would be ok while in Linux. I was thinking maybe this reputation was old as all the info there and the quality of the site was spot on.

I then went off-line and ran rkhunter and chkrootkit, one of them found a infection and both found "Threats" and something to do with Java.

Today I ran ClamTK and Quarantined eight items, all of which were labeled as PUP's.

Can someone help with this as I have no a clue what to do.

Laptop still works but start-up is a little different than before, the little swirling icon does not come up as it did before right away. Not much difference but noticeable to me.

[WharfRat]

Before you do anything else, open a terminal and

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sudo adduser someone

Use an actual name for someone and a simple password then logout and back in as the as the new user and see it's OK

Your system should not have been affected, it's most likely just the mozilla folder.

[pcpunk]

Thanks for the reply but I think it was a false positive as rkhunter shows no such rootkit. I also did a ClamTK scan and it also showed nothing but some PUP's. Sorry I did not get back quickly but my health is not good right now. All is good for now but I will be back to this thread soon.

[SpookyWatcher]

was it GLP?? Just curious because I only visit on iPad there...and was actually wondering if it could hurt my Linux Mint 17 KDE machine.