[PROXYPER] DNETC installed without my knowledge ??

[Kevin Schooler]

At 12:44 PM 7/22/2002 +1000, Peter Richards wrote:
>Hi Mark,
>
>On 21 Jul 2002 at 18:16, Messenger, Mark wrote:
>
>> Actually, the email address shown is just the Dnetc ID of the person who
>> your computer was working for.
>
>But I don't know this person at all, nor did I install Dnetc.

there's an auto install virus someone wrote floating around...

>Then why would the 'log' file have entries like:
>
>> [Feb 09 10:32:40 UTC] Retrieved 45 RC5 packets (113 work units) from
>> server 
>>
>> 23:40:00 UTC] Completed RC5 packet FCDE37BF:60000000 (7*2^28 keys)
>> 0.00:11:00.30 - [704,724.61 keys/sec] 

because dnetc downloads packets from distributed.net, processes them,
and sends them back.

it amazes me that as a system administrator you didn't *notice* when
your cpu went to 100% and stayed there?
-dd

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