Quoting Ian C. Sison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> Either you are running a program that will intentionally put the ethernet
> adapter in promiscuous mode (iptraf, sniffit, etc)

People often forget that VMware also does this.

> or you box was compromised and the hacker responsible for it did run such
> programs to sniff passwords off your network.

Yes indeed!

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