Hi, I ran into an issue last night. I’m running opensuse 13.1 with all recent updates installed. My network connection was a bit sloppy so I called my ISP’s tech support. After an hour on the phone, we didn’t find anything that was hardware related and we noticed that when the pc I have issues with was disconnected from the network, everything was fine. So, I searched into the active processes in ksysguard and saw that iptables was using a lot of cpu power, and that my upload rate was about 6.4 mbps. So, I killed iptables (the process) and everything was fine. But, each time I want to access the network, the process turns on again and my up rate goes back to max speed… I wondered if this is a known bug from recent updates or… please replie soon.

Installing those files required root rights. So I'm sorry to say but your machine has been compromised. (See https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ptables-36083/ and anything else I tagged as "iptablex".)

What remains is:
0) finding out how and when they got in,
1) marking backups (you do keep backups, right?) from that date on as "tainted",
2) reviewing any (personal) information they could have had access to for change,
3) install the OS from scratch, change all pass phrases and keys, harden your OS properly.

Any questions, please ask.