FC3 - broken into?

[Pat Pleate]

Thanks to all for your responses!
Cheers.


--- Kevin Kempter <kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com>
wrote:

> Your machine was NOT compromised. This is a screen
> saver that goes to the net (if a connection is
> available) and begins to search for and display any
> images it finds. I hate it! 
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> 
> ---- Pat Pleate <rosebwl2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry about the last entry - I hit Enter too
> quickly. 
> > I just installed FC3 a couple of days ago.  We
> have a
> > corporate firewall between our company and the
> > "outside world", so I left my the PC on but logged
> off
> > for the night.  I logged in as my own account this
> > morning (which may be root equivalent, but I don't
> > know yet, I'm learning) and ran today's updates
> > (Thurs. 2/17).  About 5 - 10 minutes later during
> the
> > time the updates were downloading/installing, I
> turned
> > around from my other workstation checking e-mail
> and
> > noticed that the FC3 screensaver was not legit -
> the
> > pictures were not work-related, i.e. nude women. 
> I
> > suspect that my PC may have been broken into.  I
> > looked at all the screensaver pics and didn't find
> any
> > nude women photo shots.  I'm very suspicious of
> this
> > and would like some assistance from the experts. 
> What
> > should I be checking for in the Linux world that
> would
> > be suspicious?  I can easily find my way through
> > Novell and Windows, but don't have much background
> in
> > the Linux world and am humbly asking for your
> > assistance.  Thanks in advance and have great day.
> > 
> > 
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