So I know Linux isn’t supposed to get viruses, but it really looks like I have one. A tab popped in firefox saying an update was required and it wouldn’t let me close it (it did not look like a legitimate firefox update), with repeated pop up messages saying information would need to be resent- everytime I selected cancel, it came up again. I was also unable to open the software centre.

I assumed the problem was firefox-specific so used purge to uninstall. At first it seemed like it worked, but when I restarted my computer firefox was still there. I tried to run purge again, but it said there was nothing to delete. So I tried to delete the program files, which seems to have gotten rid of firefox, except I still can’t open the software center so I assume there’s still a problem.

I ran clamscan and it said there’s no infected files

Known viruses: 6354850 Engine version: 0.99.2 Scanned directories: 37159 Scanned files: 146987 Infected files: 0 Total errors: 21365 Data scanned: 8522.39 MB Data read: 9700.28 MB (ratio 0.88:1) Time: 1658.820 sec (27 m 38 s)

Next steps?