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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: The Advocate on April 14, 2013, 12:28 am

Title: TAILS suspicious popup
Post by: The Advocate on April 14, 2013, 12:28 am

While using TAILS (live cd), I was viewing privnote and a clearnet site via iceweasel Tor browser (default TAILS browser).  I was also logged into the road in my vendor account, and my forum username.  A popup labelled "Metacity" pops up with the message:

There was an error running gnome-screenshot:

Failed to execute child process "gnome-screenshot" (No such file or directory)

Can anyone weigh in on the meaning of this?

Title: Re: TAILS suspicious popup
Post by: astor on April 14, 2013, 12:52 am

It means that you or someone else tried to execute the screenshot app, which apparently is not included in Tails.

That is really weird. I wonder how and why it would be executed.

I'm trying to think if there would be useful info in /var/log, but I'm not sure which log file would be best.

Title: Re: TAILS suspicious popup
Post by: kmfkewm on April 14, 2013, 02:33 am

He probably hit print screen on his keyboard by mistake.

Title: Re: TAILS suspicious popup
Post by: astor on April 14, 2013, 02:38 am

Yep, it could be that simple.