Re: Am I paranoid?

[yaro@marupa.net]

On Monday, February 24, 2014 03:48:04 PM Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 09:43:39AM -0600, yaro@marupa.net wrote:
> > On Monday, February 24, 2014 04:40:39 PM ha wrote:
> > > On 02/24/14 16:24, ha wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > > 
> > > >> Try to find that file. ( run something like "find / -name vmtoolsd" )
> > > > 
> > > > I did. It only shows that files are there:
> > > > /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd
> > > > /usr/bin/vmtoolsd
> > > 
> > > By the way, there is also /etc/vmware-tools folder
> > 
> > This rather highlights why I like Arch's package manager (Pacman.) more
> > than APT. Pacman features a command (pacman -Qo <file>) that explicitly
> > checks a file you specify for package ownership.
> 
> dpkg --search ${filename}

Thank you. Using that command it'd be trivial to see if those files were 
installed by the package manager, maybe a dependency, which is more likely 
than being compromised, in all honesty. 

Conrad