FC3 - broken into?
Kevin Kempter
kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com
Thu Feb 17 17:59:05 UTC 2005
Your machine was NOT compromised. This is a screen saver that goes to the net (if a connection is available) and begins to search for and display any images it finds. I hate it!
Hope this helps.
---- Pat Pleate <rosebwl2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry about the last entry - I hit Enter too quickly.
> I just installed FC3 a couple of days ago. We have a
> corporate firewall between our company and the
> "outside world", so I left my the PC on but logged off
> for the night. I logged in as my own account this
> morning (which may be root equivalent, but I don't
> know yet, I'm learning) and ran today's updates
> (Thurs. 2/17). About 5 - 10 minutes later during the
> time the updates were downloading/installing, I turned
> around from my other workstation checking e-mail and
> noticed that the FC3 screensaver was not legit - the
> pictures were not work-related, i.e. nude women. I
> suspect that my PC may have been broken into. I
> looked at all the screensaver pics and didn't find any
> nude women photo shots. I'm very suspicious of this
> and would like some assistance from the experts. What
> should I be checking for in the Linux world that would
> be suspicious? I can easily find my way through
> Novell and Windows, but don't have much background in
> the Linux world and am humbly asking for your
> assistance. Thanks in advance and have great day.
>
>
>
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