suspicious download

Could it be Apt-notify or Kweather, do you have email open?

regards,
Jimmy

INTEL P-IV/HT 3.0GHz - 2X256 DDR3200 - Debian, Etch Beta-3
KDE 3.5.4 - kernel 2.6.16-2-686-smp - My iMAC runs Debian, Sarge

Hello,

I use dial-up, too. Recently began using SimplyMepis, too.

The guy in this thread had the same problem: http://www.mepis.org/node/10938

The problem stopped after I removed the Apt-Notify from the taskbar. I also removed KlamAV and made certain the firefox browser did not update on it's own accord.

Maybe this topic should be the subject for a 'Sticky' for new users?

regards,
Handyman's Special

How did you stop FFox from updating, please tell?

regards,
Jimmy

INTEL P-IV/HT 3.0GHz - 2X256 DDR3200 - Debian, Etch Beta-3
KDE 3.5.4 - kernel 2.6.16-2-686-smp - My iMAC runs Debian, Sarge

Hi Jimmy,

Well, I *thought* I was able to do that but now that I search around, I don't see a setting. Must have been in a dream.

Cheers,
HS

HS and Jimmy, I think I found something for the auto-updating. And I may have found a minor bug. On one of my boxes running 3.3.1-1, but ff is currently 1.5.0.6, this is what I found.

First method: Go into Edit, Preferences. Click the Advanced button at the top of the Preferences page. There will be three tabs below: General, Update, and Security. Click the Update tab. Down towards the bottom half of that screen you will find, "When updates to Firefox are found:" and "Ask me what to do" will probably be selected. You can change that to "Automatically download and install the update".

Did you check it and now realize that that's not what you wanted? Oops! Too bad, you can't "undo" it (bug?). However, I found where you can. Click close to save the changes (no other choice) and get out of Firefox.

Second method and possible repair: Start Firefox back up. Enter "about:config" in the address bar. Lots of stuff will be displayed. Enter the word "update" in the Filter field. You should see a line like the one below:

app.update.auto  (default or "user set")  boolean  (true or false)

If "true" is showing, double-click on it and it will change to false. Likewise, double-clicking on false will change it to true. Exiting out of Firefox will save the setting.

Now, whether auto-updating is only for your local copy or for the system (I doubt it) I don't know...

Jon

Thanks Jon,

Since it was grayed out after I selected it, I didn't notice it when I was looking for the option.

Cheers,
HS

Thanks HS. I didn't even know about the option until you brought up the fact that you had used it. Then, when I tried to change it from the menu it was fine but it wouldn't let me change it back. That's when I strained my brain cells to see what I could see ("about:config" is your friend).

Jon

Hi
I checked again after fresh install. It is the freshclam which is the culprit. netstat -p showed that freshclam is connecting to redhat website. I uninstalled freshclam and everything is fine.

I really do not know why freshclam is connecting to redhat and the website is to check whether apache server installed correctly or not.

Looks like freshclam is a virus rather than antivirus!!!!!

Freshclam is the antivirus updating engine and NOT the antivirus program itself.

I think your trouble is that freshclam is either running on a crontab OR you have freshclam running as a daemon. In either case, clamav will update automatically. You need to look over your crontabs and also check to see if freshclam is starting at boot as a daemon.

Go to /etc/rcS.d and /etc/rc5.d to look for files with freshclam in the name. If so, it is running as a daemon at boot and needs to be turned off by deleting the file. Do NOT delete the file from /etc/init.d!

If you don't find freshclam there, go to Konsole and enter "crontab -l" (no quotes!) and see what you find. I can't imagine finding a crontab for freshclam but it may be there. If you do find it though, run KCron and remove the freshclam job.

Michael
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