On 05/24/2017 08:38 AM, William wrote: > Good morning, > > The "f24 boot fails; need help" problem set me back a week. I'm still > catching up. I seriously believe it would be foolish for me to just > forget it. I should for the benefit of others try to get at the real > cause and possible prevention. > > A few hours before the failure, I received and looked at an e-mail that > I'm almost certain was at least a spoof, and possibly malicious. I know > it contained html and links. I did *** not *** > click any of the links. I looked at it, and deleted it. It was viewed > in Thunderbird only. The message's "From" ended with "yahoo.com". My > question: It is highly improbable that that message had anything to do > with the boot failure. Am I correct? > > Also a few hours before the failure, I did some web browsing using > Firefox with NoScript and uBlock Origin. As best as I recall, the > "riskiest" sites that I visited were finance.yahoo.com (and a few of its > sub-pages, I clicked no ads, no ad links) and indeed.com (possibly and a > posting or two). My question: It is highly improbable that my web > browsing had anything to do with the boot failure. Am I correct? It is unlikely that you got infected by the email--especially if you didn't click on any links and you have "Show remote content" turned off in the mail client. The browser is probably safe as well. I don't use Firefox (I use Chrome) and I have Adblock, UBlock, UMatrix and PrivacyBadger enabled on it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Vegetarian: Old Indian word for "lousy hunter" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
