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Re: Was I hacked into? who is user "nobody"? please help....



Hello,

it may be (I'm not sure) one of the package of debian that has put an "find" in
crontab like the package wich looks at security like change in the list of
setiud programs or the update for locate (updatedb) !

Bye
Sébastien.


> Hi all,
>
> a few minutes ago I heard my PC getting into a lot of fuss over something,
> the HDD was spinning like crazy...  so I looked at "top" and found that user
> "nobody" was running a "find" comand....
>
> Now, is this a bad thing?  it SURE looks liek one.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Gianguido
>
> PS please carbon copy your answers to this address too: I am not on the list
> cos I don't know enough even to help the newest of newbies :-(
>
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