[G4] "Echo you got owned"

Richard Klein richspk at gmail.com
Wed Nov 12 07:23:37 PST 2008


It sounds like you inadvertently left some kind of server running,
maybe SSH or something, and someone took advantage of that to mount a
volume on your desktop.  It's not a virus, exactly, but someone
executing commands on your computer.  Check what's running on your
computer.

-- 
Rich

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:37 AM, Giorgio Gomelsky <gio1 at rcn.com> wrote:
> Out of the blue a 9.9GB disk "echo you got owned" appeared on my MDD running
> 10.4.11
> desktop. It contains a bunch of applications, the Library (5.5GB!) and
> sundry files
> mostly I think from my main startup drive. I googled it like crazy but can't
> really find any
> answers. Any idea what that is? Virus?


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