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My Ubuntu PC Was extremely hacked.

Bug #306388 reported by reptileguy

This bug report was converted into a question: question #53948: My Ubuntu PC Was extremely hacked..

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On 12-07-2008 My Ubuntu PC Mysteriously opened the text writer known as Gedit, And there in front of me it spelled out the hacker wrote "I am the devil" I asked the hacker who he was and he just kept saying Satan ad stuff like that, He then deleted all the text we had written, and took control of my mouse, and computer for a minute or two, so I would consider this a serious issue for Ubuntu, How do I fix this, I installed Guarddog, But it says im not a super privileged user and im an administrator to the system. So yeah there is a huge security breach.

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Bernhard (b.a.koenig) wrote :

Interesting, I have a gedit session where I can talk to Freddie Krueger. :)

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Martin Kossick (hacktick) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

I personally would recommend you to reinstall ubuntu and change all passwords. It could be a risk to connect to the internet before reinstalling.

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goto (gotolaunchpad) wrote :

Reinstall Ubuntu from a CD and while doing that delete the whole hard disc drive (But everything is gone after that). Be sure to get the Ubuntu CD from an independent source.
Be sure to use really save passwords.

I hope this is a joke, and if so, then please stop doing things like this, we have better things to do. If this is no joke, then sorry. Are you sure that this could not be your brother or so who has physical access to your computer and maybe knows your password?

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reptileguy (brantjterry) wrote :

For GOTO yes this was not a joke, and im like the only one in the family with good computer skill, Ubuntu Is just new for me so its confusing on how to stop attacks like this, He Hacked my computer again last night after i installed a new firewall known as guarddog, but apparently it dosnt work, I dont know if I can reinstall ububtu, because my computer has a one year warranty for malfunctions so I'm gonna call the tech support today and try to figure it out with them. Last night this guy put like nude pics of himself on my desktop all I could do was delete them as they came on then I was like screw it i just disconnected myself from the internet, Pulled the ethernet cord, and then shut down the system, and restarted. So Im just trying to stop him frrom getting in my system, cause I thought it was supposed to be really hard to crack ubuntu?

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