Le 24.02.2014 13:14, ha a écrit :
I have a relatively new installation (2 months) of Debian Wheezy, and not many additionaly packages installed. I *never* installed anyvirtual machine on this computer, however, after some problems (that I first though were hardware related) I found that vmtoolsd is installedon this computer.Synaptic does not show any installed VM package, same as my shell history.I'm aware that virtualization theoretically could be used to gain backdoor (or at least processing power) and I wonder if I'm the lucky one. I'm willing to explore this if anybody is interested to lead me.
Try to find that file. ( run something like "find / -name vmtoolsd" )dpkg ( or apt, aptitude, synaptic, etc ) is not the only way to install things. It's only the most efficient ( on Debian ) and secure. It is still possible to install from sources, for example, in this case, it will problably be installed in /usr/local. Also, it could be that your $PATH include a directory of your $HOME, where an installer could have then installed something. For example, I have installed some games like that: regnum, or redeclipse ( but I have to type their complete names for now. I should add their pathes to my $PATH for more ease of use, or bind their binaries to a shortcut... ).
Good hunt.