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I'm using Ubuntu Mate 16.04 LTS. I've installed it just yesterday and updated it immediately. Today I start my system up and VLC keeps popping up out of nowhere. It shows in a small window the JAVA logo (coffee cup). I closed that and after I closed it, it popped up again with ASCii colour art showing (that was the title at top). I keep closing it but it keeps popping up.

Actions: - Deleted VLC player: Still pops up VLC somehow. - Deleted JAVA completely: Stopped popping up.

Question: - How come VLC keeps popping up even when i deleted it? (purge command) - Was I being hacked? - Do I have to do a fresh install?

khaled
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Since everything in Linux is a file, a running process is as such as well a file which is located in the /proc folder in which you should not mess around in by hand the probability is very high that at least one task of VLC kept that file for the process alive. So normally a simple reboot after uninstalling VLC would probably have solved it.

About your question if you have been hacked. I can't tell. But for sure sounds iffy somehow, and if I where you I would do a fresh install just to be sure.

Videonauth
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