From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HKOns-0005Tg-Em for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:00:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1N0wjkQ023337; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:58:45 GMT Received: from desiato.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1N0pTnm014317 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:51:29 GMT Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD6456DA0 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:51:27 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:51:20 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Did I just get hacked??? Message-ID: <20070223005120.2a917517@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10702221534p2fd8fbd7u7a3d7c3f68b51893@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10702101827k199bf270yfb65ed1f4f5195e0@mail.gmail.com> <1171165124.381.9.camel@blackwidow.nbk> <49bf44f10702221534p2fd8fbd7u7a3d7c3f68b51893@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.7.2cvs62 (GTK+ 2.10.9; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_iio5I5BLeQJn_uQQF28BtXk; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 09c38a96-5645-41dd-abbf-db6325d8a114 X-Archives-Hash: e6b374c526b8222c2be9aec3d7551cda --Sig_iio5I5BLeQJn_uQQF28BtXk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't. --Sig_iio5I5BLeQJn_uQQF28BtXk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF3jqMum4al0N1GQMRAl+3AJ9jJDIeuen39UvxDSSQk0B0+smZnACeKbNh Vse0pvhyYmFgObKVo3wMrBc= =WLxA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_iio5I5BLeQJn_uQQF28BtXk-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list