Re: intrusion detection

[David Bernier <david250@videotron.ca>]

David Bernier wrote:
> Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 09:55:32PM +0630, David Bernier wrote:
> > > Dear Debian users,
> > >
> > > I think my computer was hacked. A music CD that I bought in a store 
> > > (Redbook audio
> > > standard) was left in the CD/DVD bay. Then, mysteriously, a song
> > > by Destiny's Child ("Jumpin' Jumpin' ") got transformed into the 
> > > *.ogg format, but
> > > I didn't ask for that. Same sound from stereo playing Redbook format 
> > > audio CD
> > > and the *.ogg file on the hard drive ...
> >
> > I do not have hard facts but tis seems to be just clicking wrong
> > key/mouse which caused to creaye such thing. ...
> >
> > > So I took a test-drive of Ubuntu 8.04 Live CD, and then did a complete
> > > reinstall. Now, I'm using Ubuntu and the firestarter firewall.
> > >
> > > I'd like to know about ideas for security, including for example 
> > > intrusion-detection systems.
> >
> > If you are playing with Ubuntu, please ask their mailing list.
> > Then you get better support.
>
> Yes. Truth is I left the music CD in the bay and the BIOS settings had 
> the CD/DVD drive as
> the first boot device. It may have contributed to my Debian 
> installation crashing.
>
> ---
>
> The Gnome system monitor now shows incoming traffic at 4 kB/sec every 
> 20 seconds. Maybe
> this is when my computer contacts an SNTP server ( simple network time 
> protocol).
>
> Would a package such as ethereal tell me what this traffic is?

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