On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Olaf Mueller wrote: > > checking my filesystem with antivir (H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH, > AntiVir / Linux Version 2.0.9-6, VDF version: 6.23.0.9 created 12 Dec > 2003) runs into the following alert. Antivir says that the files > /usr/share/locale/<pt_BR,fr,de,cs>/LC_MESSAGES/net-tools.mo are > infected with trojan horse "TR/HackToolX.RK.1". What is the md5sum result for each of these suspect files on your system. As far as I can tell FC1 and RH9 have identicle bits so if true this is _interesting_. I did check one (fr) against norton on yahoo mail's attachment scanner and it was ok. By chance is this file system shared samba/NFS/pcnfs with a Microsoft OS or perhaps is your system dual boot where you share this file system with multiple OSs? Wine? Anyhow here is the set of md5sum values for my copies of these files. Do others have different values? What are your md5sum check values? On Fedora (FC1): $ md5sum /usr/share/locale/{pt_BR,fr,de,cs}/LC_MESSAGES/net-tools.mo 7d8730b30d88256c63e9b60be387c65a /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/net-tools.mo d4fa9ed7191ad0a00cf2556950414922 /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/net-tools.mo 18bed885c2f7a319a0ad2e80c7ca3941 /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/net-tools.mo f5586f3464a9d1f46bf760bc3436d6d6 /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/net-tools.mo Also the normal beginner advice that you might not need, be sure to operate as a normal (not root) user whenever possible. The normal file and directory permissions protect the files from being messed with in simple ways. Check file dates, permissions, ownership and the directories too. Here are my file and dir permissions by way of example: $ ls -l /usr/share/locale/{pt_BR,fr,de,cs}/LC_MESSAGES/net-tools.mo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46605 Feb 11 2003 /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/net-tools.mo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46671 Feb 11 2003 /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/net-tools.mo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40920 Feb 11 2003 /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/net-tools.mo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48498 Feb 11 2003 /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/net-tools.mo $ ls -ld /usr/share/locale/{pt_BR,fr,de,cs}/LC_MESSAGES/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Dec 10 22:53 /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Dec 10 22:53 /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Dec 10 22:53 /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Dec 10 22:53 /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/ -- T o m M i t c h e l l mitch48 -a*t- yahoo-dot-com