[olug] Security in a simple home system

[Daniel Linder]

On Mon, November 20, 2006 15:40, Jack wrote:
>     At home I run Mandriva 2006, using a Cox cable modem and a Netgear
> router (with a 27 character password).  I have all the Mandriva 2006
> firewalls in place.  Recently I have noticed that my time display in the
> system tray changed itself to the Los Angeles time zone.

That's odd, but by itself I would chalk it up to an accident or bug.

>     Then I began getting a popup telling me that 'kded' had crashed and
> offering to notify the KDE developers. Upon investigation, I noticed
> anywhere from 2 to 5 instances of 'kded' running.  They went away when
> killed but reappear when I reboot the machine.