On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:47:57AM -0600, phil at rephil.org wrote: > I had two mystery processes virtually lock up my laptop for 1/2 hour, > (disk thrashing) before deciding that I didn't have anything on the > system that should be doing that. The only clue I got was the names > of the processes at the top of "top", and I didn't recognize them. > > Does anyone know what "dcsP43zCr" and "dcsaNhlna" might belong to? Or > should I start tearing apart the firewall and go to DEFCON-5? It's likely you've been hacked. Take your machine off the network and down to single-user mode and search for any recently modified files, and any files named "dcsP43zCr" and "dcsaNhlna". -- Michael