Re: Strange Process running as root

["Dharmendra.T" <dharmu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Analyse what that process is doing. Check the system for intrusive activity.
If you suspect that it is not used kill it or stop it.
If it is intrusive, then you have to analyse it report it to the buglist  so
that you can get the permanent solution
regards
Dharmendra.T
Linux Security Expert
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Blomberg" <dblomber@libertec.com>
To: <security-discuss@linuxsecurity.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:07 PM
Subject: Strange Process running as root


>
> A friend of mine has a machine running with this strange process
>
> root      1122  0.0  0.7  3268  908 ?        S    06:19   0:00 -:0
>
> is it anything he should worry about.
>
> System RedHat 7.3
> Desktop KDE 3.0
>
>
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