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hey all,

Just curious if theres a list of evil suspicious stuffs in the linux list of running PROCESS. List of evil stuffs as in potential trojan / virus / hacker / backdoor, etc.

I use PC Linx OS Gnome edition and on the "system monitor", it shows alot of stuffs such as..

Process name Status %CPU Nice ID Memory
nautilus sleeping 35 0 5593 189M
firefox-bin sleeping 2 0 12182 66.9M

etc etc..

Linux will have a lot more processes running due to the design of the system. Very few to none are bad processes.

I go look now, and I have 93 processes running.

ex: nautilus is the file browser in gnome, firefox-bin the Firefox executable

I am sitting at 160 processes right now. I am using OpenSuSE 11 64-bit. Although that is while my system is idle-ish, I normally hover around 220 processes or so after a couple VM's are running for classes and having Netbeans running. I am assuming since I am running the default kernel, I have a larger amount of processes along with quite a few unneeded modules.

Kinda off-topic, Smart, do you run a custom compiled kernel?

oh thanks 4 the reply.

The reason why I asked is cuz i've been running as "ROOT"

I run as ROOT all the time because it is just soooo much more convinient for me -- I got tired of running as user having to deal with "limited access" to any randomly-attached internal harddrives / external hdd / usb stick, etc. I got tired of have to modify mtab / fstab / chown / etc.

I will be the first to warn you that running around in the root account when not needed is not a good idea. It opens you up to being prone to insecurity. It may work if you are the only box in the house or office, but it generally is never a good practice. If you need the root account that much, consider setting up your normally user as a sudo account. This way you would have more access to the system but are still not opening your system up nearly as much. \

Side note, what file system type are your internal and external hdds, and flash drives? In my system I set up a symbolic link between the regular ntfs driver and the ntfs3g driver to allow all users read / write privileges to my passport. If your flash drives are FAT, PClInuxOS should recognize and setup read / write privileges for all users.

oh hi !

Thanks 4 the reply. Yea.. my linuxbox is on the router together with 2 other computers (all in my bedroom).. gamer PC ( winXP) and another PC to record tv shows ( win XP).

Oh.. how do you make a user = sudo account ? I might just have to do that.

Regarding the filesystems, I got them all..
PClinuxOS = ReiserFS
HDD1 = XFS
HDA6 = FAT16
SDA1 = XFS
HDC1 = NTFS Fuseblk
usb thumbdrives, external HDD = FAT16 or FAT32

Any particular reason you are using ReiserFS and XFS? The FAT drives should mount with read / write permissions natively. I have not used PClinuxOS in depth. Lemme look around and get back to you on how to make a sudo account on that particular distro.

hiya unlawful

last time i googled for whats the best filesystem to use for big video files and it points ot XFS. I forgot why I picked ReiserFS for my "/" though !

This evening I played with 2 installs: OpenGEU and Earmusic.

OpenGEU is just like Elive enlightenment (which I still love) but after doing the auto-update, ubuntu killed it by overwritting with ubuntu native.

Earmusic .. from denmark.. NICE.. but it bored me after just 3 hours of use. So now I mounted my PCLinuxOS back on

Thanks:)

For NTFS read / write support in PCLinuxOS check here. As for setting up a sudo account, there should be an option in your control panel.

To answer your original question: no, there is no list of 'bad processes'.

There are so few virii and trojans written for linux that you don't need to worry about it too much. Use antivirus (Clam AV is popular) and scan your PC from time to time and you'll be fine.

Far more important is to set up a user account and use it rather than root. Running as root on a day to day basis is colossally stupid.

*cough*windows*cough*

Running Windows on day-to-day basis is colossally stupid?

Pretty much

<-- Zero issues.

Me too!

Other than issues with self-esteem now that I'm a Windows user again.

When did you come back to Windows? XP? Vista?

I use an XP desktop at work because most of my tools (Framemaker, WebWorks, RoboHelp, other Adobe apps) are Windows only.

For the most part, unless you VM it with a ghost backup. So when the inevitable breakage occurs, it is even easier to recover from it...A plus is using linux as the host.

You missed the whole conversation preceding this, didn't you?

You missed me caring.