Analyse what that process is doing. Check the system for intrusive activity. If you suspect that it is not used kill it or stop it. If it is intrusive, then you have to analyse it report it to the buglist so that you can get the permanent solution regards Dharmendra.T Linux Security Expert ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Blomberg" <dblomber@libertec.com> To: <security-discuss@linuxsecurity.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:07 PM Subject: Strange Process running as root > > A friend of mine has a machine running with this strange process > > root 1122 0.0 0.7 3268 908 ? S 06:19 0:00 -:0 > > is it anything he should worry about. > > System RedHat 7.3 > Desktop KDE 3.0 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message.