some attack to fedora machine .

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Thu Apr 10 16:20:06 UTC 2008


subhodip biswas wrote:
> hi !
> I am using a DSL net provided by my local cable operator . I am on a
> limited bandwidth connection with allows only a gig od data transfer.
> Now though my provider allows windows only client support , I am
> connection to it via system-config-network --> xdsl connection .
> problem is when ever i conect the net something is doing terrible
> amout of upload from my machine (both windows & linux) .
> Windows boot time scan reveals a trojan . But cant figure out what is
> doing that amout of upload from  my fedora 8 machine .
> 
> any ideas , any issues before .. need help urgently
> ps . I have SELinux permissive and firewall enabled .
> 

turn off skype, torrent, other p2p apps.

you may want to check the network traffic with wireshark:

# yum install wireshark-gnome
$ wireshark





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