Re: FC3 - broken into?

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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@xxxxxxxxx> 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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