Mark Wallace wrote: > I just put windows into my good laptop because I expect to need it to > do my taxes next month. I thought that the windows editions of the open > source programs like Libreoffice would be safe.
Did you download them from the main sites? e.g. www.libreoffice.org? I wouldn't be surprised if other unscrupulous parties were repackaging open-source stuff with their own malware, but I would be disappointed if the creators were doing so. > > Guess again, they are full of toolbars that you have to decline and > other junk. I thought that I had carefully declined everything until I > booted up Firefox. The home page had been changed to the > "Funmoods"search engine. > > Mark > > -- > Mark Wallace > POI Box 11144 > Newburgh, NY 12552-1114 > Telephone: (845) 541-7396 > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Dec 5 - SysAdmin Panel > Jan 9 - High Performance Computing > Feb 6 - Raspberry Pi > ============================================================================= michaelMuller = [email protected] | http://www.mindhog.net/~mmuller ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams - Arthur O'Shaughnessy ============================================================================= _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Dec 5 - SysAdmin Panel Jan 9 - High Performance Computing Feb 6 - Raspberry Pi
