Uruk eh? I'll have to check it out.
If you can't get to the forum with Abrowser you would be the fourth person I
know of having had that issue recently. 2 with Midori and 2 with Abrowser.
brashley46 posted screenshots at
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/flidas-and-abrowser of midori trouble and
dany4president opened up a similar post.
Browsers having trouble going where they are trying to could certainly be a
sign of our web server being compromised. DNS misdirection is the first step
in getting victims to land at a site that installs malware on their computers
before it finally serves up the web page requested like a proxy server. My
experience was after accepting the certificate overriding what Abrowser
wanted me to do, trisquel.info took minutes to finally load up using all
available cpu cycles while waiting. The initial web server wouldn't be
serving malware but rather a very limited (to avoid detection) number of
redirections to vulnerable clients (come to think of it, I remember seeing a
trisquel cookie that simply said, "has_javascript" or something to that
order). I do not have much expertise in all this but the scary thing is that
a compromised server starts with a back door that is very hard to find and
get rid of. And that might come about if say the web master used ssh from
another server already compromised thereby having his credentials stolen. But
all the information I can find on the Windigo family of malware is at least a
year old and most two years or more. Throughout all that time the gang behind
was continually changing components and how it worked. Every time a study was
released on it, they would change it so that the known info no longer
applied.
After a new install, I am having no problem accessing the forum with
Abrowser, now. Trisquel 8 with Mate Desktop looks really cool and I guess
it's an early alpha or whatever so some hiccups are to be expected. I was
just having problems installing brasero and gave up for now. Last night I
tried banshee and was surprised by a hook download of 172 new CA-certs. After
my recent experience that made me nervous. I just uninstalled it.
Looking at Uruk web page, is that xfce desktop? Oh, says mate. Is that with
Docker? What kind of browser do you get? I see they have done a lot of work
in the package management area.
Well, we all got to be on our toes :) cause something may be afoot. Heh,he.
