This is generally sage advice of course, but I'm inclined to take this
particular report with a pinch of salt. This report doesn't cite
sources, there's no mention of the phenomenon on ubuntu.com, and a
cursory Googling turns up no other reports of this happening.
Matthew.
Amos Shapira wrote:
For the benefit of those who might not follow such news (e.g. Linux newbies
who take their first steps in downloading and installing such software), I
post this here as a warning - don't download just any copy of a Linux
distro
unless it's coming from an official distro site and (or?) without verifying
the checksums with those provided on an official mirror site.
http://www.funtechtalk.com/trojan-horse-loaded-version-of-ubuntu-704-spreading-over-torrent-sites/
Cheers,
--Amos
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