On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, mike wrote:

> recently I have noticed a lot of small traffic thru my internet
> connection ( eth1 ) even when I'm not surfing. How Can I determine if
> I'm being used as a zombie, or have otherwise been compromised?
> 
> I use a cable modem, and share this with my wifes windoze box. I run
> firestarter as the firewall.

Besides watching the traffic, installing and running chkrootkit is a good 
way to test for whether or not your system has been compromised. There is 
an MDK RPM for it for the recent (9.x) releases; it's in contribs, IIRC.

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