From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Did I just get hacked???
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:34:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49bf44f10702221534p2fd8fbd7u7a3d7c3f68b51893@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1171165124.381.9.camel@blackwidow.nbk>
> > The contents of my /home/grant/vmware folder have suddenly
> > disappeared. I haven't noticed anything else strange yet. I did
> > configure and start shorewall for the first time yesterday instead of
> > using a few iptables commands from the Gentoo Home Router Guide. I'm
> > also running PenguinTV (a video RSS aggregator with an ebuild in
> > bugs.gentoo.org) and transmission (a bittorrent client in portage)
>
> So someone breaks into your box and the only thing they can think of to
> do is remove your ~/vmware directory?
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?
- Grant
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-22 23:42 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 ` Grant [this message]
2007-02-23 0:51 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2007-02-23 17:48 ` Andrey Gerasimenko
2007-02-23 18:47 ` Neil Bothwick
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