FALSE ALARM - Possible malicious updates

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FALSE ALARM - Possible malicious updates

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libavcodec1d
libavutil1d
libflac8
libpostproc1d

These four updates - all ranked 3 in mintUpdate - are my current four suspects in the case of Who Killed My Sound.

As I said in a previous thread, I had no sound. After a fresh install, I decided to allow for all updates except for those involving sound or video codecs. My sound is now working just fine.

I don't know if anyone else has had duplicate effects, but I thought a warning was necessary, just to be on the safe side.

UPDATE Ok I installed each one, one by one, re-booting each time, and my sound is still fine. I guess something got loaded improperly the first time I installed Dayna, but installed fine on the second install. So nothing to see here, move along.
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Husse

Re: WARNING - Possible malicious updates

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Quite probable.
Category 3 are updates that are not tested and not known to be neither malicious nor benign
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Re: WARNING - Possible malicious updates

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A related issue to the FLAC vulnerability?

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0 ... 0&from=rss
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Re: WARNING - Possible malicious updates

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I updated my Linux Mint XFCE computer and those files were part of the update. Now my computer won't even turn on. I get a blinking orange light on the monitor. :(

Help suggestions?
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Re: WARNING - Possible malicious updates

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red-e-made wrote:libavcodec1d
libavutil1d
libflac8
libpostproc1d

These four updates - all ranked 3 in mintUpdate - are my current four suspects in the case of Who Killed My Sound.

As I said in a previous thread, I had no sound. After a fresh install, I decided to allow for all updates except for those involving sound or video codecs. My sound is now working just fine.

I don't know if anyone else has had duplicate effects, but I thought a warning was necessary, just to be on the safe side.
I just wanted to post that i had the opposite thing happen I didn't have any sound until i installed these updates I have a audigy soundblaset sound card... so I'm not sure how malicious they actually might be!
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