TROUBLESHOOTING KOPETE
10 May 2013

I'm using Kubuntu 11.04, and I am a Windows user who is still trying to get used to Linux. Although, I'm learning a lot, because I've read the first100 pages of Your UNIX/Linux the Ultimate Guide, by Sumitabha Das.

But I made a stupid mistake early this morning when I was trying to create a new Yahoo email account. Because I got a security warning from Mozilla about third party visibility, I switched to using Reconq as my Web Browser. Then I registered a new Yahoo email account, and late in the registration process, Yahoo told me I need to update, upgrade and download some stuff in order to gain full access to the functionality of the website I was using.

I thought this was strange for a few reasons. First, because the file it asked me to download said something like MP3 or MPEG, but it included a bunch of other files with a total of about 8 MB. And the second reason I was suspicious was that if this was related to the Yahoo website, then why would yahoo ask me to download it 3/4s way through the installation process. It should have asked me as soon as I opened the website.

Anyway, it told me it would enhance the functionality of the website and enable me to complete what I was doing. So, I just accepted the downloads and gave it permission, and it ended up downloading 19 packages and said it was updating or upgrading my current packages, and it took about 2 minutes. When it was done, I was able to complete the registration process, but there were problems with my new email account and it didn't work. When I tried to register the new account again, I got the same request to download the update again.

So, I used Firefox to create the new account, and that worked better.

I had done this, so I could add my Yahoo account to Kopete. So, when I booted up Kopete, I added the new yahoo account and tested it. But I experienced a lot of problems with Kopete, especially with respect to my contact list, and whenever I logged off Kopete.

Is there a way of using the Find command to examine those packages I had downloaded and installed, to see if some malware was installed, and to see if my home directory was affected? Should I use the Find command to examine all the files modified within the last 9 hours?

Is there an automated tool that can delete the packages that were installed based on their files' modification times? Or should I use the -exec command to delete all of the files that were downloaded about 9 hours ago? Or should I just move all of the files modified within the last 10 hours to the posix directory and examine them before deleting them?

I forgot to mention that the download and installs required permission to access or modify by KWallet. I gave it permission to do so.