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Grant wrote: |
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>>> Any tips here guys? Is there some kind of an audit process I can go |
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>>> through periodically to help ensure I'm safe? |
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>>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 8:52 AM Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>> I noticed some strange behavior recently which has since gone away. |
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>>>> From a security standpoint, if root is hacked I suppose there's no |
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>>> way |
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>>>> to know, but if not can I use root to determine whether my user is |
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>>>> still secure? |
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>> I think there are some rootkit checks and other things, but other than going through all the settings files, it will be difficult. |
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>> What was thebstrange behaviour? |
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> The strange behavior was a critically slow internet connection first |
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> thing in the morning that wasn't fixed by a reboot or modem power |
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> cycle. My net0 monitor didn't show any traffic but I still wonder if |
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> the upstream pipe could have been clogged with data. My problem |
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> seemed to be the downstream but I think a full upstream pipe can slow |
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> the downstream? No ISP reports online and it cleared up after a short |
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> while. I haven't seen that before. Would you be concerned? |
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> Is there a separate device I can put on the network to monitor traffic |
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> so I can review it later on? |
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This may be related but it may not. I notice things like this at times |
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and I watch the light on my modem. If the light is blinking, something |
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is using the internet. If not, it is upstream. One thing I check, my |
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cell phone. It is set to ask but for some updates, it doesn't. At |
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times here, I can see my download stream reduced by half at least. It |
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could be my ISP being overloaded, it could be the server I'm connected |
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too. I think with the bug going around and a lot of people working from |
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home, it's slowing the internet a bit at times depending on how your |
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traffic is being routed or what sites you connect too. I read somewhere |
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that youtube actually stopped high resolution videos for a while to help |
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reduce this problem. I think it was in Europe somewhere but that |
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doesn't mean it hasn't happened in a lot of places. |
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Could someone have hacked you, possible. If you have something that is |
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worth hacking that makes you a target, very possible. Could it just be |
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that the internet is being heavily loaded and struggling to keep up, |
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could be. One thing I did once. I had a video site that was really |
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slow. It's was about like dial-up slow. What should take a hour or |
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less was showing 6 or 8 hours. I went to another video site and tried |
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it. While not a max speed data transfer, it was pretty close to |
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normal. My thinking, a lot of other people were using that site and it |
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was heavily loaded but the systems between me and it was a little slower |
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as well, although barely noticeable. |
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Just some things to ponder and maybe watch for or test. May help, may |
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not. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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