OS: SuSE 9.0 This is a new FTP installation updated via YOU. During the install, one non-root user was created and used successfully for about a week. First sign of trouble: we couldn't login with error indicating an incorrect password. AS root we reset the password and can now login on a character screen but when logging in under KDE, receive the following error: There was an error setting up inter-process communications with KDE. The message returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list /home/<user>/.DCOPserver_HBADMIN_0 Please check that the dcopserver program is running. A quick check of running processes shows no such process. The KDE login fails and returns to a login screen. All other users can login just fine. Further, we tried removing this use and his home directory along with all files/subdirectories but were unable to even list the following dirctories: cannot access /home/<user>/.qt (permission denied) cannot access /home/<user>/.kde (permission denied) cannot access /home/<user>/.wine (permission denied) cannot access /home/<user>/Desktop (permission denied) even as root. Could this system have been hacked or compromised in some way? (How would I go about checking this?) If so, what should we do about it? (I did enable SuSEfirewall2 closing all ports to the outside world.) Thank you, Lucky Leavell