On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 17:02 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > I was hacked last month and had a simple password for my name which > is internal and only seen here in my room or, I forgot, a person using > ssh. This German hacker just turned on my firefox web browser several > times to a German web page that never fully loads up. I was happy > because he could have done something worse. > > Well he did. While using the web browser it would sudden change to a > full screen colored thing and my mouse and keyboard stopped working. > Today I went to the source of my Firefox and it is at > /home/karl/work/firefox/. There are about 30 files there and I studied > them and there were two that looked odd. I did ls -al and found they > were made the same day I was hacked! Then looked and they were > exicutables and I deleted both. This seems to have stopped this problem. > > Time will tell but it is just like the German's to do this kind of > thing. It hurts and they don't give a crap. I almost hate to say it: "SELinux".