hi there, two very peculiar things happened today while i was at school. i left my house around 10:00. at this point everything seemed to be running normal. but when i got back around 1:00,
1) firefox had misteriously opened a new tab and navigated to booble.com (a porn search engine that i have never been to before)
2) my display name on amsn (an msn messenger clone ( amsn.sf.net ))had changed to "dan - i never shower" (changed from my real name of dan ). no one had been in my house though, so it was not one of my friends(or enemies... ? )

another thing that i noticed a while back, but never did anything about happens when i run gnome-system-monitor. i get about 7 or 8 processes all with no names, the name column entries are just blank. i dont know if it is relevent or ever a problem or what. i just thought id add it.


anyone know how i can check to see if mycomputer has been comprimiesd?

yes it sounds like you have a variant of the roomate virus....j/k

is there anyone who has access to your machine while you're gone?

acctually your correct, it was the brother-breaks-in-to-my-house-for-emergency-bathroom-stop-then decides-to-look-at-porn...weird.-variation.
thanks for the help. case closed.

that's hilarious!

definitely bookmarking this thread.

edit: oops. i meant to make a new thread, ill just leave it like this though, it works.

more info:
they are all owned by root
they all take up 0bytes of mem
there "nice"es (what ever that is) are all 0 or -10, and there is alway one left at the botom with 19
one of them expands out into 6 sub processes.

whats going on?

achoo!!! ^^^^^^^look at previous post ^^^^

exscuse me. sorry about that sneeze there.anyone know whats going on in the previously described problem?

Take a look at the output of pstree, but I'd imagine that they are just a series of child processes that are spawned to monitor various system and hardware parameters. If you are concerned about the integrity of the binary, just run rpm -V gnome-system-monitor. If you worried about other binaries, run rpm -Va or try rootkit hunter.

To avoid the brother-in-law virus, I'd log out if you are leaving, or just set the screensaver to lock the screen...

Dude, I live alone and I lock my screen when I'm gone.

(What about the superintendant, eh? )

then change your password