Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 11:08:36 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Scott <digitalox@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Has my box been compromised? Message-ID: <39BA7CA4.290140F3@urx.com> References: <39BA0BE6.C49E2FE3@earthlink.net>
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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'? Are you sure it wasn't the locate update running. It fires off at 1-2am and churns the system for a few minutes. Kent > > -- > Scott Dubose > Houston, TX > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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