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Paniikkihäiriöisille ja valehteleville win-trolleille Mint-foorumilta sopiva kommentti:
"To those worrying about Mint with fears that virus checking is needed, malware detectors, whether Mint Linux is safe, can downloads be trusted, etc, etc.
Calm down!
NOTHING HAS CHANGED!
Mint Linux itself has not changed. Mint was not even hacked!
Nothing has changed regarding virus, the need for virus checkers or anything else.
I am using Mint Linux KDE 17.0 and continuing to use it as before.
The Mint WEBSITE was hacked!!
That’s like Google being hacked. Any data you had stored on Google is up from grabs but it has no impact on the operating system you were using to access it, be it Windows, OSX, Android or Mint.
You can use Mint in the exact same way you were before – though it’s a lesson on having different passwords for different sites.
Yes, on the 20th Feb Mint Cinnamon 64 was ‘hacked’ in the sense the weblink to the ISO image was REPLACED and the user sent to a hacked version of Mint. But we’re talking about a REPLACEMENT ISO – not a bit of malware you pick up from an update.
Absolutely NOTHING was compromised on updates, software installs, nothing.
You would be infected if you installed SPECIFICALLY mint Cinnamon 64bit edition having downloaded the ISO image in EXACTLY the 20th February – which means 99.8% of Mint users are unaffected- including me. I am a naturally nervous person and even I am completely sanguine about this. I know I have no problem and odds are – neither do you.
*If* you installed SPECIFICALLY Mint Cinnamon 64 using an image from the EXACTLY the 20th, FEBRUARY get a new image, reformat the hard disk, re-install, problem solved.
If you used the same password to access the Mint forums and other sites, you should change the password on ALL sites that you used that password on. But, again, this has nothing to do with Mint itself.
Linux Mint remains as secure as it ever was. Nothing has changed. Now, the website is whole other matter and it seems deficiencies were found and exploited – but it’s damn hard to maintain web security. But, again, this has NOTHING to do with Mint.
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994