Re: Did I get hacked?

BJ Dierkes <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:44:36 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Are you sure you didn't have the 'vmware' directory as a mount point  
for a secondary hard drive/partition?  If the drive/partition didn't  
mount properly it would appear to have 'disappeared' until you mount it.


On Feb 11, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Grant wrote:

> The entire contents of my /home/grant/vmware folder have suddenly
> disappeared.  I haven't noticed anything else strange yet.  I did
> configure and start shorewall for the first time yesterday instead of
> using a few iptables commands from the Gentoo Home Router Guide, and
> I'm running PenguinTV (a video RSS aggregator with an ebuild in
> bugs.gentoo.org) and transmission (a bittorrent client in portage) for
> the first time.  My shorewall config is here:
>
> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_108375.xml
>
> What should I do next?
>
> - Grant