This week I’ve been reviewing my old laptops to see if they are still working and which are dead. One of them is a Dell Latitude D610 business model which originally came with Windows XP. It still runs well and it now has Linux Mint 18 on it. This OS is probably at end of Life and may need updated to a newer Mint version. I wanted to see if any Linux updates were available so I ran the update utility. 187 updates were available and they were installed.
After this I started the web browser to see if it worked. It went to a site I’ve never seen and wasn’t trying to view. The site was “search.hfreeliveradio.co. Then my Internet provider app alerted me a unwanted web site was visited. Since I’ve never visited the site, the homepage probably got changed by something malicious. Since the OS isn’t current, maybe something snuck in.
Firefox web browser settings were examined and I found the homepage was set to this web site! That’s why it came up every time I searched for something. I’m used to this happening to Microsoft Windows computers, but never in Linux.
