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  • Look out - there's a new option in xscreensaver

    From Henry Crun@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 1 13:35:37 2022
    Running Ub. 20.04 experienced some problems with xscreensaver (missing module) to simplify, reinstalled xscreensaver, and selected the BSOD screensavers, left the options as they came
    ..
    Some hours later came back to my screen to find waht was at first glance a very colourful, fairly realistic-looking
    ransomware warning.
    .. spent some seconds panicking...

    Be warned, among the options you can select in the xscreensaver BSOD is "Ransomeware" (seleted in the default installation)
    Hope this saves another old codger from an incipient panic atack

    Mike


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  • From Henry Crun@21:1/5 to andrew on Sun Oct 2 06:42:42 2022
    On 02/10/2022 6:22, andrew wrote:
    On 2022-10-01, Henry Crun <mike@rechtman.com> wrote:

    Be warned, among the options you can select in the xscreensaver BSOD
    is "Ransomeware" (seleted in the default installation) Hope this saves
    another old codger from an incipient panic atack

    I could not see that option in x-screensaver 6.05, however I did see a
    newish looking Covid-19 screensaver which features an animation of the
    virus itself, spinning across the screen. How modern :)

    Andrew


    current xscreensaver appears in synaptic as 5.42
    and:
    <quote>
    $ xscreensaver -h
    xscreensaver 5.42, copyright (c) 1991-2018 by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org> </quote>


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  • From andrew@21:1/5 to Henry Crun on Sun Oct 2 03:22:07 2022
    On 2022-10-01, Henry Crun <mike@rechtman.com> wrote:

    Be warned, among the options you can select in the xscreensaver BSOD
    is "Ransomeware" (seleted in the default installation) Hope this saves another old codger from an incipient panic atack

    I could not see that option in x-screensaver 6.05, however I did see a
    newish looking Covid-19 screensaver which features an animation of the
    virus itself, spinning across the screen. How modern :)

    Andrew
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