Re: Concerned 3 im clients were installed as dependencies.

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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Christoph Maser<cmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 00:21 +0200 schrieb Rob Townley:
>> Worried, ran yum -y update expecting to get the bind update but am
>> concerned as to why the following instant messaging packages were
>> installed as dependencies.  All of the following are instant messaging
>> related except cyrus-sasl.
>>
>> Jul 30 17:00:49 Installed: cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.22-4.i386
>> Jul 30 17:00:49 Installed: meanwhile-1.0.2-5.el5.i386
>> Jul 30 17:00:50 Installed: libsilc-1.0.2-2.fc6.i386
>> Jul 30 17:00:54 Installed: libpurple-2.5.5-3.el5.i386
>> Jul 30 17:00:58 Installed: libpurple-perl-2.5.5-3.el5.i386
>>
>> Did anybody else notice the install of im clients on practically
>> headless non-gui systems?
>> Any explanation?
>
> We observed something similar. On some systems automatic update
> installed kernel-xen-devel on some of our systems. Seems like the yum
> repository metadata was broken at some point in time.
>
> Chris
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Gosh, i miss Munich at this time of year.  Wish i was eating a roasted
chicken in the Chinese Pavillion right now!

Thanks.  Maybe i am being paranoid but Rootkits sending back their
loot via im isn't uncommon and this internet facing system is due for
a harddrive wipe anyway.  But after yum clean all and uninstalling all
the new im clients, then rerunning yum update resulted in no updates
found.  So that is good news.

Thank You Karanbir, Kwan, and Christoper.
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