[Staffslug] virgin strikes again but how ?
A week or so ago I had the unfortunate experience of upgrading my Virgin
20Mb system to 30Mb with their new Super-Hubs.
I'm not going into details here but an engineer came and 'set it up' for
me - including activating the system.
It's working sort-of OK.
Anyhow today I had a message on my Ubuntu 10.10 system
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList
/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick-security_multiverse_binary-amd64_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
It occurred to me that I hadn't been updated recently.
I looked at file "
/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick-security_multiverse_binary-amd64_Packages"
which contained
<html>
<head>
<title>Broadband Activation</title>
<style type="text/css">
body { text-align:center; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<a href="https://act2.virginmedia.com/Activation/start.do">Please click
on this link to proceed with Broadband Activation...</a>
</body>
</html>
How the H*** did that happen !!!
Luckily I had taken a backup 2 days earlier and recovered the file and I
think I'm OK
weird
Iain