(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?)
* 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?
* No one is authorized to connect in from outside; I myself do not try
to do so.
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.
I'll try Frank's suggestion and respond to him later; I'm researching it
first.
Bill.
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