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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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  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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