Re: rkhunter -c, doesnt show any rootkit
David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 08 Jun 2016 at 22:16:03 (-0000), Dan Purgert wrote:
>> David Wright wrote:
>> > On Wed 08 Jun 2016 at 20:51:55 (+0300), Nikos Macheras wrote:
>> >> On 06/07/2016 01:50 PM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>> >> >On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 01:29:28PM +0300, perljpes@gmail.com wrote:
>> >> >>There is a problem to a computer,
>> >> >>It loses files, not very often, files downloaded from internet.
>> >> >It *only* loses files downloaded from the internet? How do you download
>> >> >those files?
>> >> >Are you sure that this isn't something (perhaps the browser) cleaning
>> >> >up old files?
>> >> The last time, was with httrack, after download files (45 files),
>> >> after some minutes dissapeared. repeated three times. The computer
>> >> has not any port open on external interfaces (eth0,wlan0), it runs
>> >> debian wheezy .On cron i dont see something that could remove theese
>> >> files.
>> >> Any suggestion?
>> >
>> > [also]
>> >
>> >> The Download target was $HOME
>> >
>> > Whose $HOME? It would be bizarre to download a website into your own
>> > home directory. Someone changing files on the other side of the world
>> > could change files in your own home directory.
>>
>> Well, if he's /Downloading/ something (e.g. the latest *.tgz for some
>> sourcecode), one would imagine it's HIS $HOME (or at least $HOME of the
>> currently logged in user). This is the default action in Iceweasel --
>> or, at least on my install it was.
>>
>> Or have I missed something somewhere? Seems the thread got broken
>> somewhere, so not 100% certain if this is the latest info ...
>
> The OP hasn't posted a lot of information, so I made some assumptions.
>
> He mentions httrack and 45 files, so I assumed he was downloading a website
> rather than, say, a single tgz. httrack would be overkill for that.
> But how would you like someone else's website to determine your own
> home directory's files and folder structure.
Ah, I see what you're getting at now -- the split in the thread threw me
off what you were getting at with "someone else determining file/folder
structure". I mean, if the intention was "download some remote
directory in its entirety", you would pretty much start at "what they
decided", and go from there (or at least I do when running wget / curl).
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