Right.
I guess my thought was that you may need root to kill the process(es). Not
necessarily though.
For reporting purposes, I agree, log in as a non-super user.
Tim
Randall R Schulz
Tim, Martin,
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 07:07, trainier@kalsec.com wrote:
I wrote an agent that watches current google search queries in realtime (not quite realtime, but quite close) This is not hard to do, either. I suspect this is what's going on.
Log into your machine as root and do a ps aux and show us the output.
Why as root? There is no output from "ps" that's available to root only.
At the same time, if there actually were some spyware or other exploit with a foothold on the OP's system (very unlikely, I agree), then exposure could conceivably be increased by logging in as root.
I highly doubt there is a piece of malware running, but it's worth checking for.
Tim
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Everyday I am seeing spam email which is a reflection of complex sensitive key word phrases I had typed into google just a few days previously.
If these "complex" "key word phrases" (a contradiction in terms, by the way) are truly "sensitive," then you should not be sending them to Google. While Google may (for now) protect search terms from being associated with the individuals that submit them, they do not in any way guarantee that all they'll do with them is use them to conduct the search you request.
Randall Schulz
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