On Tuesday 31 July 2001 10:42 pm, Lee wrote:
| Running COL 2.2. In the last week my hard drive went from 75% used
| to 99% used. Checked. The only thing I could find out of place is a
| strange file in /home/user called scywebMT.dll'. The file is
| totally untouchable. Tried to remove it with rm and rm -f terminal
| window locks up. Tried to read the file with cat got the same
| result. Whatis same result.This file wasn't there before my free
| space on the hard drive started to disappear.
|
| Anyone know what scywebMT.dll' is? Is it possible that some
| creature has managed to plant a Linux virus?
it appears to be a windows thing for gathering/assembling web use
statistics. what it's doing on your linux box is anybody's guess. you
might be able to boot from a floppy, mount the pertition containing
it, and nuke it from there. god only knows how it might have run --
is this the elusive one windows thing that runs perfectly under wine?
-- or where it stores what it stores. otoh, it might be that your
drive getting full is some unrelated problem -- if you got this thing
amid your linux stuff, god only knows what else you've managed to
bring aboard. sounds a little like some ill-begotten experiment gone
far awry.
--
dep
one day, you'll wish it was now.
your wish has been granted.
don't waste it.
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