Software updater snuck in a package that is unwanted

[Jay Ridgley]

On 10/17/2017 02:05 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 08:32:13 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
>> Maybe you should read the original message? There Bret mentioned
>> "Synaptic shows it (I think) as unattended upgrades" which should tell
>> you that the package in question is "unattended-upgrades". That
>> package is in main, so there is no need for speculation about third
>> party repos.
> 
> If you should have followed all "trojan" related mails from Bret, you
> wouldn't assume that the culprit for the assumption that his install
> might suffer from malicious software not necessarily is related to
> "unattended-upgrades". Bret is guessing a lot.
> 
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 14:55:37 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>> It is v16.04.x (that appears to be not included in the response to the
>> uname-a command).
> 
> The command is lsb_release.
> 
> [root at moonstudio ~]# lsb_release -a
> LSB Version:	core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch
> Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
> Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
> Release:	16.04
> Codename:	xenial
> 
> 
> 
Ralf,

When I enter:
cdjsys at polar:~$ sudo lsb_release -a

The result shows:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release:	16.04
Codename:	xenial
cdjsys at polar:~$

Is this a problem? What are LSB modules?

Thanks
Jay
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