Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 12/15/2011 02:45 PM, Linda McLeod wrote:
> Re: Screensaver takes too much time to fade-out...
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>      Wed, 14 Dec 2011 3:33 PM (18 hours 45 minutes ago)
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> On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:13:09 -0800, LM (Linda) wrote:
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>> The g'rillas get into it through
>> weaknesses in FireFox..
> What makes you think so?

Unless you left SSH up with totally dumb userids and passwords, Fedora 
does not really have any open attacks against it.  Or perhaps you really 
DID disable the Fedora local firewall.  So that means you had to 'reach 
out' and touch something bad.  Going to a web site with badness with 
firefox and getting that installed will do it to yeah with great regularity.

There are some other attack vectors.  For example you download an audio 
recording or get one in your email and it starts up with a message that 
a codec is needed and you ALLOW it.  Thing is that codec that is 
retrieved is malware.  So in this case either firefox or your emailing 
(thunderbird?) started things.

There are too many people running Fedora out of the box and being safe.  
You have to do something 'different' to get attacked.  Or perhaps really 
be running code that no one else is (or hardly anyone else) that has an 
important hole in it.  Say some special driver for some special hardware 
from China...

Linda, get real.  Reinstall, following Jake's recommendations.

Oh, and choose good passwords while you are at it.

Have a good life.