suspicious text alteration

2009-02-03 Thread linux
Hi, I noticed something very suspicious the other day while using emacs. I'm sure I saw a text character on my screen (far from my cursor or mouse pointer) change to a different character on it's own. I have noticed this a couple of times before in the past, but instantly ignored

Re: suspicious text alteration

2009-02-03 Thread Michael Loftis
--On February 3, 2009 6:38:19 PM + li...@aleblanc.cotse.net wrote: Hi, I noticed something very suspicious the other day while using emacs. I'm sure I saw a text character on my screen (far from my cursor or mouse pointer) change to a different character on it's own. I have

Re: suspicious text alteration

2009-02-03 Thread Rolf Kutz
On 03/02/09 14:42 -0500, Allan Wind wrote: Prank? Root kits usually wants to stay undetected to steal passwords, or use your box as spam relay. There used to be a worm in the 1990ies that would make letters from a terminal fall down. regards, Rolf -- ... But, conscience asks the question,

Re: suspicious text alteration

2009-02-03 Thread Allan Wind
On 2009-02-03T18:38:19, li...@aleblanc.cotse.net wrote: I noticed something very suspicious the other day while using emacs. I'm sure I saw a text character on my screen (far from my cursor or mouse pointer) change to a different character on it's own. I have noticed this a couple