On 2020-02-21 06:49, home user wrote: > (on 02/20/2020 at 2:10pm mountain time, Ed said) > > > Do you have a fixed IP or dynamic IP? > > I believe it's fixed, provided by the ISP (comcast). > > > What services do you run on your system? It helps to know what area you're > > concerned with. > > * Firefox, Thunderbird, Tor (rarely), dnf, zoom (for meetings). (What counts > as "services" here?)
None. Those are all clients. Examples of a service are sshd - for allowing incoming ssh connections httpd - for running a web server named - for a dns server > * Other uses of internet are "under the hood" and mostly unknown/invisible to > me. > * Oddball: when logged in as root, and I launch a terminal, several seconds > later, I see a short wave of internet activity; this is very consistent. > What's going on there? If you want to know what is going on you'd need to use something like "wireshark" to capture the network activity and examine it. > * No one is authorized to connect in from outside; I myself do not try to do > so. I don't know what that means. > > This morning, I got 2 messages from the bank saying 2 attempts to make > purchases via paypal were rejected because the card had not yet been > activated. I called the bank. The messages were legitimate. Curious: the > card is near expiration, and a new one (same number) had just been > made/mailed. The bank then de-activated the card. I do not know what other > personal info the malicious person/group got, where the info came from, or > who the malicious person/group is. I think it wise for me to check that no > one is getting into my system. Thus this thread. By the way, both > chkrootkit and rkhunter reported my system is clean later this morning. I do > realize they don't check everything. Well, that sounds much more you information was leaked by PayPal. Not your system. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
