Please, remember I'm almost a computer illiterate.You wrote:I used to read that newsgroup on and off. If you opened only text messages I doubt that you would have picked up any malicious linux code there, but of course one never knows.Antipodal wrote:In that paragraph, "alt.2600" is a hyperlink. And just because I became curious about what the alt.2600 newsgroup was I clicked on it.
Since then my computer has behaved as if it were crazy.
I clicked on that link while I was using my XP OS and though I'm not sure if you can pick up a malicious linux code doing that, I' have no doubts about having picked up malicious MS W XP code there.
You wrote:“Performing ‘switch root to the layered file system…Kernel panic – Not syncing: Attempted to kill init