From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 9 12:47:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82B4837B422 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 12:47:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earthlink.net (user-v3qs3v1.dsl.mindspring.com [199.174.15.225]) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA25039 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 12:47:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39BA942F.CF81683D@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 14:49:03 -0500 From: Scott X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Has my box been compromised? References: <39BA0BE6.C49E2FE3@earthlink.net> <00090913273200.42178@marbsd.tninet.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG THanks, that's a relief to know. Scott Mark Rowlands wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > > These opinions are mine, they are just opinions > you are free to disagree, please do so quietly > > _______________________________________________ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Scott Dubose Houston, TX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message