Maybe Ubuntu's 13.10 updates are, or were, backported automatically to Peppermint 4's security center by default. I don't know why Peppermint 4 is testing so cleanly if is no longer supported, but that being said, Peppermint 4 is working great on that old Dell computer.

I rebooted the computer, and it is faster again, and still testing clean according to eset test. Hours later, and I have now returned to the faster DNS services suggested by namebranch. I hope my neighbor will come to enjoy the Linux experience too. I would like him to discover the simplicity, security, and joys of Linux. My good neighbor deserves a fast DNS process for that old legacy Dell computer. I'm going to put the faster DNS settings back onto his router. Does everything we do on the web go through a DNS process to get what we're reading, or looking at, or listening to, or do some things come right from our Internet Service Provider itself, such as established bookmarks, or our browsers themselves- those things not needing a search quest first.Īnyway, I'm going to do an experiment here. Good question - and one that will expose my ignorance on this subject in a matter of seconds!Īnswer: The server from where we're getting our information from at the particular time. The test shows his system to now be running clean with Peppermint 4.Ĭan a DNS provider infect somebody's computer with the Windigo Trojan?

I removed Ubuntu 12.04.4, and installed Peppermint 4 with OpenDNS this time, and ran the Windigo test from eset. Now I'm wondering if because I played around with namebranch in order to find him the fastest DNS servers, did I, or could I have, accidentally gotten him a faster server at the expense of infecting his old Dell with the Windigo Trojan? Then, remembering I had a different ISP than he did, and that my computer had been hit with the Windigo Malware Trojan a couple of weeks earlier, I decided to test his computer for Windigo, and, yes, his servers were infected. I promised him this would be his best bet for the ultimate in security and ongoing update support.Ī day after installing Ubuntu, his computer began acting strangely - not as fast as I remembered it to be, and it was a bit jumpy. I promised to help him keep the computer up and running by putting Ubuntu 12.04.4 on it until we transitioned to Peppermint 5. My neighbor's computer is an old Dell Dimension 3000 that was running Windows XP Pro.

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