ukui-screensaver trojan

[LEo]

It has a trojan to redirect you default Firefox page to 123.sogou.com.
It also installs ubuntukylin-default-settings.
Here is what I had to do to get rid of it:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/970219/123-sogou-com-trojan-horse-in-ukui-screensaver/970220#970220

[Leonidas S. Barbosa (leosilvab)]

Hello Leo,

It's not a trojan. What happened was that you installed the ubuntukylin screensaver flavor and it by default sets sogou.com page that is kind a google page for China. It's a perfectly normal behaviour.

[LEo (leolca)]

Sorry.
But anyway it is an undersized settings it imposes on you and the only way
to get rid off it is to uninstall the screensaver. You may change the
default page and it resets automatically to sogou. In my opinion, it
trespass the user's choice.

On Oct 30, 2017 15:50, "Leonidas S. Barbosa" <email address hidden>
wrote:

Hello Leo,

It's not a trojan. What happened was that you installed the ubuntukylin
screensaver flavor and it by default sets sogou.com page that is kind a
google page for China. It's a perfectly normal behaviour.

** Changed in: ukui-screensaver (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Information type changed from Private Security to Public

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Title:
  ukui-screensaver trojan

Status in ukui-screensaver package in Ubuntu:
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Bug description:
  It has a trojan to redirect you default Firefox page to 123.sogou.com.
  It also installs ubuntukylin-default-settings.
  Here is what I had to do to get rid of it:
  https://askubuntu.com/questions/970219/123-sogou-com-trojan-horse-in-ukui-
screensaver/970220#970220

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[schnauzer (schnauzer93)]

> But anyway it is an undersized settings it imposes on you and the only way
to get rid off it is to uninstall the screensaver. You may change the
default page and it resets automatically to sogou. In my opinion, it
trespass the user's choice.

I also agree. I fail to see the difference between this behavior and that of a malicious browser hijacker.