Hacked by hydra. At wits end.

[scatman98]

What are you searching for?

The distro is locking me out of internet access, login access to desktop, folder/file access , and sometimes fixing itself randomly so i'm looking to fix this behaviour.

[Eadwine Rose]

Does this similar behavior also happen on the LiveUSB?


How have you installed things on your system?

[scatman98]

Does this similar behavior also happen on the LiveUSB?


How have you installed things on your system?

edit: I had this happen especially with the writable usb option i think the usb drive was corrupted while running live? only tried with non writable option after that and yes same behavior.
clean install.

[Eadwine Rose]

I was thinking more of the software ON the system.

Did you use the recommended method MXPI, or did you use deb downloads, stuff like that?

[scatman98]

I was thinking more of the software ON the system.

Did you use the recommended method MXPI, or did you use deb downloads, stuff like that?

i downloaded using mxpi

when i run sudo for one program only in terminal, say, nordvpn client, it auto updates all repos and i get the same behaviour.

[Eadwine Rose]

What you are listing is not malware; they are just "regular" software packages, tools for different purposes. Why they get installed seemingly automatically on your system is something that will hopefully be cleared below, but a hacker next door causing this seems to be on the unlikely side of the possible causes here

Likely indeed just dependencies of things that were intended to install.

[siamhie]

I was thinking more of the software ON the system.

Did you use the recommended method MXPI, or did you use deb downloads, stuff like that?

i downloaded using mxpi

when i run sudo for one program only in terminal, say, nordvpn client, it auto updates all repos and i get the same behaviour.

Why are you running the nord client as sudo? Run it as a user. These are the commands I use.
The first one is to just connect quickly. The second is when I'm torrenting.
The third is when I want to use a double vpn connection. The last is to disconnect.

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nordvpn connect
nordvpn connect P2P
nordvpn connect double_vpn
nordvpn disconnect

[Nokkaelaein]

Likely indeed just dependencies of things that were intended to install.

Ah no, that was about the results of "apt search", and a misunderstanding of what the command is used for (i.e. listing all available packages fitting the search, instead of showing packages somehow related to the software on the local system).

[Eadwine Rose]

I'd say: if you are scared of having been hacked, or basically, if you did something which you have no idea of what you did, and your system is not behaving, start over, and install from MXPI only.

In the time it takes to go on a chase, because I still really don't understand what you want or what is going on, you could be up and running properly again.

[Stevo]

Captain America was pretty good at fighting Hydra...