Hi again!
Have here a Dell Precision M6400 (4GB RAM) with a 3 month old Intel 80 GB SSD, openSuse 13.2 64bit freshly installed in December 2014 (root: ext4, rest: XFS 
).
Until yesterday everything was up and running, this morning chaos broke. Apparently Thunderbird was open over night and AOL email service was down for hours this morning, might be a simple coincidence, butâŚ
The notebook uses the built-in NIC for internet (no wireless configured), via NetworkManager. In the morning the connection to the network was broken with a âGBbus errorâ and the computer was overall very slow in responding to any keyboard or mouse command.
I switched to YaST management of the NIC and was able to gain the usual IP (reserved on DHCP server), but access to local resources via SMB was veeeeerrryyy slow (takes minutes to open a folder on a local NAS). Ping to local and internet (even DNS) works.
Next thing: No Firefox and Thunderbird running, âundefined sympbl: PR_NewRWlock, Couldnât load XPCOMâ (same error with both applications).
(Have screenshots, but no way to upload them nowâŚ)
Apper fails with âActivation of org.freedesktop-Packagkit timed outâ
Zypper can reach internet, as do Konquerer and YaSt.
Uninstalled Firefox and Thunderbird in YaST. Reinstalled. SAME error (canât believe it, even nowâŚ). Changed from suse repository to mozilla, tried again, same error.
I gave up on this installation and will do a fresh install on a new HDD.
My question: Is there any malware for Linux (wine installed, so maybe even for Windows?) that can result in such symptoms?
Any info highly appreciated, many thanx in advance
rasputin
