On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 19:22, mike wrote: > Bill Mullen wrote: > > 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. > > > have done that already nothing, > > so what causes the constant traffic when I am not running a browser, etc?
you could chalk it up to gremlins, or you could run ethereal like someone already suggested. If you need help interpreting what ethereal tells you, we're here for that. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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