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Date:      Sat, 9 Sep 2000 16:57:56 -0600 (MDT)
From:      John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>
To:        Scott <digitalox@earthlink.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Has my box been compromised?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009091657130.22393-100000@inconnu.isu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <39BA0BE6.C49E2FE3@earthlink.net>

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Cron job--updating the locate database.  


On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Scott wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I was surfing on my dsl line (dynamic ip) a few minutes ago and noticed
> my hard drive
> was churning even though I wasn't doing much. I ran top and saw several
> processes being run by user 'nobody' such as find, locate.proxxx (?can't
> remember), and several 'sh'. I immediately killed ppp, and then the
> 'nobody' 
> processes but many of the processes had already died after I killed the
> ppp 
> connection. Did someone break in or is freebsd doing something behind
> the 
> scenes as 'nobody'?
> 
> --
> Scott Dubose
> Houston, TX
> 
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