[Cialug] This doesn't look right

[Aaron Jensen]

Jeff,

Automatix is an installation manager for Ubuntu.  As for why you are 
receiving the particular message about it not being authenticated, I am 
not sure.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

Aaron

Jeff wrote:
> As you know I am new to Linux in the last week. I was smart enough (I
> hope) to install Firestarter as my firewall and a few days ago I had a
> "hit" that the firewall blocked. I didn't screen shot it and will (any
> "hits") in the future. Well, just tonight, I got and update install
> notification and went ahead and started to update. Please see the below
> links of the screen shots of the dialog boxes I got.
>
> [IMG]http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/3846/screenshot1gn2.png[/IMG]
>
> [IMG]http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/6882/screenshotfs6.png[/IMG]
>
> Is it possible that this is a bogus update by someone trying to get into
> my system. And if so, how do I handle it. If I remember correctly, I did
> this update a few days ago and the dialog boxes didn't resemble these.
> And how do I get rid of the update notification icon at the top of my
> screen.
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Jeff
>
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