Re: Weird Symbol in Home Directory

2008-11-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:24:37PM -0700, TW wrote: > > Please post the output of 'ls -la'. > > -rw--- 1 user user0 2008-11-30 11:32 > > [snip] My system doesn't have a username (or a group name) "user". Check your /etc/passwd for such a username. Doug. -- To UNSU

Re: Weird Symbol in Home Directory

2008-11-30 Thread John Hasler
TW writes: > -rw--- 1 user user0 2008-11-30 11:32 > rm '>' -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Weird Symbol in Home Directory

2008-11-30 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TW wrote: >>-rw--- 1 user user0 2008-11-30 11:32 > >>[snip] > > So it's a normal file, with a size of zero bytes, with an odd name. > (Assuming "ls" has not been compromised.) > > Some miscreant ap

Re: Weird Symbol in Home Directory

2008-11-30 Thread Kent West
TW wrote: Please post the output of 'ls -la'. -rw--- 1 user user0 2008-11-30 11:32 > [snip] So it's a normal file, with a size of zero bytes, with an odd name. (Assuming "ls" has not been compromised.) Some miscreant app somewhere allowed the creation o

Re: Weird Symbol in Home Directory

2008-11-30 Thread TW
> Please post the output of 'ls -la'. -rw--- 1 user user0 2008-11-30 11:32 > [snip] -- VR~ TW Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Knowledge Is Power" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: Weird Symbol in Home Directory

2008-11-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,30.Nov.08, 11:40:37, TW wrote: > Hi, > > In my home directory, there's this file (or _something_) that is there > that > looks like this: ">" (the symbol within the brackets). What the heck _is_ > this thing? > Everytime that I delete it, it comes back in about 60 seconds or so.

Weird Symbol in Home Directory

2008-11-30 Thread TW
Hi, In my home directory, there's this file (or _something_) that is there that looks like this: ">" (the symbol within the brackets). What the heck _is_ this thing? Everytime that I delete it, it comes back in about 60 seconds or so. Is there a virus in my computer? Thank you.