What services are you running ?
1) Scan port your machine.
2) Get a "fresh" copy of netstat, ps and ls (from the cd), check to see what should and what should not be.
Peck Dickens wrote:
> Today I noticed a security warning in /var/log/messages. The warning was the
> following:
>
> Apr 11 00:02:38 wildthing : Security Warning: There is modifications for port listening on your machine :
>
> Does anybody know what this means and how/why I got it? This particular machine
> is running Mandrake R7. I have never logged into the machine as root other than
> to do maintenance and ect... I have never logged onto the internet as root. I
> have never changed any of the permissions in the file system. Furthermore, all
> of the files that I have downloaded using this machine have either come from
> mandrake.com, caldera.com or redhat.com and have been in the form of rpm's that
> were signed.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Best
>
> M. Peck Dickens
>
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