Weird message: "Suddenly the dungeon collapses. You die."

[jennyw <jennyw@dangerousideas.com>]

Has anyone ever seen this message before? Is it an indication that my 
computer has been compromised?

The scenario when I saw this message:

I was doing a few things at once. I was running GNOME and had a terminal
window open with an ssh session to a screen session on another computer.  
I also had Galeon open and was just starting to get CUPS working.  
Suddenly, I noticed that my video was very funny. Lines were appearing on
the monitor like there was some weird redraw problem.  Then I noticed the
shell window -- it said "Suddenly the dungeon collapses! You die." or
something very similar.

I rebooted and things seemed okay.  I tried printing and it worked without
weird video problems.  I tried ssh'ing back to the other computer and
noticed the screen session was dead (never seen that before) so I thought
maybe it was screen that had the problem with the dungeon and the video
thing was an unrelated glitch.  Of course, someone could have broken into
either box (hard to know which) and done something bad.

Of course, even if I do reinstall the OS, unless I know how someone got in 
(assuming they did), I won't be able to stop them a second time.  So I'm 
just leaving the boxes alone for now.

Any advice? 

Thanks!

Jen


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