Fresh Install PureOS 9 DNS Request to European Central Bank and IMF

wellthatsweird · September 7, 2021, 7:25pm

Hello world,

What happen:

I downloaded an Gnome flavored PureOS 9.0 ISO from the official Purism site, sha256sum was good.

Full install in a KVM

Full update & upgrade

Only Install Safing Portmaster (I really recommend the app)

The Portmaster detected rogue DNS requests to the European Central Bank and International Monetary Foundation

I repeated all again with a completely new ISO in virtual machiner and did it with USB boot as well

Portmaster can block thies but please help with how we can stop this fully

Weird

NineX · September 7, 2021, 9:32pm

strings /usr/bin/gcalccmd |grep imf
https://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/data/rms_five.aspx?tsvflag=Y
offline_imf_currency_provider_real_download_file_sync
offline_imf_currency_provider_real_download_file_async_co
offline_imf_currency_provider_construct
imf_currency_provider_get_name_map
imf_currency_provider_construct

/usr/bin/gnome-calculator
same
it’s gnome calc currency converter
uninstall calculator

it’s part of financial mode of gnome-calculator to fetch currencies.

github.com

linuxmint/gnome-calculator/blob/master/lib/currency.vala

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2008-2012 Robert Ancell.
 *
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 * the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
 * Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
 * version. See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html the full text of the
 * license.
 */

static bool downloading_imf_rates = false;
static bool downloading_ecb_rates = false;
static bool loaded_rates = false;
private static CurrencyManager? default_currency_manager = null;

public class CurrencyManager : Object
{
    private List<Currency> currencies;
    public signal void updated ();

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"When you are paranoid you have to learn programing, debugging and investigating things. "

wellthatsweird · October 4, 2021, 2:49pm

Hello & thank you to all pureos developmenters for making pureos & yourself for this solving of problem.