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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
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