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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Did I just get hacked???
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:51:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070223005120.2a917517@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10702221534p2fd8fbd7u7a3d7c3f68b51893@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:34:45 -0800, Grant wrote:

> It occurred to me this morning that a hacker could have gained access
> to my system via the vmware guest OS (XP) and then deleted the
> contents of vmware/ to cover his tracks.  Does that sound like a
> possibility?

Not unless you have the vmware directory mounted within the guest OS. The
VM cannot access filesystems on the host unless they are created as disks
on the VM or network mounted.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-23  1:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-11  2:27 [gentoo-user] Did I just get hacked??? Grant
2007-02-11  3:06 ` Jerry McBride
2007-02-11  4:11   ` Grant
2007-02-11  3:38 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-02-11  4:06   ` Chris Nolan
2007-02-11  4:29     ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2007-02-11 21:16       ` James
2007-02-12  0:31         ` Grant
2007-02-12  6:02           ` Paul Sebastian Ziegler
2007-02-12 13:30             ` Shawn Singh
2007-02-12 13:35               ` Shawn Singh
2007-02-12  3:58         ` Grant
2007-02-12 15:32           ` Dan Farrell
2007-02-12 16:33             ` Willie Wong
2007-02-12 18:05             ` Grant
2007-02-13  8:07               ` nicolas.cornu
2007-02-22 23:34   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant
2007-02-23  0:51     ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2007-02-23 17:48       ` Andrey Gerasimenko
2007-02-23 18:47         ` Neil Bothwick

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