Hi,

Maybe not a question for this very forum...but I have a paranoid mind...

I scan the local folder once in a while and I found a hidden foldercalled openme, is that for open M E ? does the folder invite me to open it up?

Any ideas?

Tnx

Thor

Edit : in the mean time, I did a virusscan (yea-yea, but I had to undergo windows once way back when so...) and that came up blank. So, what's for me to learn here?

That is an interesting one. I have never heard of it. While it is rare for Linux systems to experience viruses there are other forms of problem ware, like trojen horses, etc.
Before doing much with it, I would check who owns the file, what are the permissions on it and is it executable, where is it located and is the location suspicious? I would also look for a setuid or setguid, which could indicate that it will operate with elevated permissions.

As long as nothing appears really out of the ordinary, like being in a /tmp file, owned by root with setuid, I would think you should be able to open the file with an editor like Vim and be reasonably safe. Just be sure to do so from an ordinary user account and don't execute the file.

Q: You haven't been playing "Open Middle Earth", have you ?

PS:
Check out your "mystery directory" from the command line. Provided you don't double-click on anything from a GUI, you should be safe. "ls -la", "less", "file" and "strings" are your friends

Thanks guys...

Hey! there is a game called "Open Middle Earth" now???

Well, I seem to be owner-and-all of the thing, it has a "cache" folder, in there are some folders, all seem to be from around the time I first installed the system...

If it's "bad" - the time stamps could have been different.

Eh - false alarm, it seemed, but nothing learned...

@ Noway2 - I've seen a virus in action on a corp lan - messy , if there's one word for it. That is why I moved (ya know MV as it completely) to Linux, the only thing humming here...

Lemme close the thread...thanking you guys for the reactions! I do appreciate this!

Thor