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Date:      Sat, 9 Sep 2000 13:24:43 +0200
From:      Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net>
To:        Scott <digitalox@earthlink.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Has my box been compromised?
Message-ID:  <00090913273200.42178@marbsd.tninet.se>
In-Reply-To: <39BA0BE6.C49E2FE3@earthlink.net>
References:  <39BA0BE6.C49E2FE3@earthlink.net>

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On Sat, 09 Sep 2000, Scott wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was surfing on my dsl line (dynamic ip) a few minutes ago and noticed
> my hard drive
> was churning even though I wasn't doing much. I ran top and saw several
> processes being run by user 'nobody' such as find, locate.proxxx (?can't
> remember), and several 'sh'. I immediately killed ppp, and then the
> 'nobody' 
> processes but many of the processes had already died after I killed the
> ppp 
> connection. Did someone break in or is freebsd doing something behind
> the 
> scenes as 'nobody'?
> 
> --
> Scott Dubose
> Houston, TX

I think you may  find you have been have compromised by the evil
BSD Daemon running locate.updatedb,  df-ing your file systems, 
checking for suid binaries and other jolly activities and mailing you
well root at any rate, the results of his industry 

Mark Rowlands  +4686224510  GMT + 1
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These opinions are mine, they are just opinions
you are free to disagree, please do so quietly 

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