On Monday 09 April 2007 04:18, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Sunday 2007-04-08 at 21:57 -0500, dwain wrote: > > I had just sent an email and there was great hard drive activity after > > that. I opened Ksysguard and noticed that gzip was running at about 85% > > and then perl ran. gzip went away and after that perl. Do I have a > > reason to feel paranoid about this strange activity? > > I don't think so. > > Perl will probably run after receiving an email, due to amavis-new or > spamassassin analyzing the email, for instance. It might trigger on mail > sent, depending on the setup. > > gzip... it might trigger with the above if the email contained a > compressed file. Otherwise, it might be just chance that the system was > compressing a log file, like riccardo said, or any of the similar cron > tasks around. > > There are many activities going about. With time you will recognise their > work patterns. > > -- > Cheers, > Carlos E. R.
I appreciate the comfort of your statements form you and Riccardo. I was
hacked on a Windows system last year and I am more than just a little
paranoid, even though I know that Linux is more secure than Windows.
Dwain
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