<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Clay Weber <<a href="mailto:clay@claydoh.com" target="_blank">clay@claydoh.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Thursday, May 03, 2012 01:51:20 AM Lucas L wrote: > > Hi, > I recently noticed a new folder in my Home directory, with a file named "check-home". File appears to be an executable but has no extension, an it is 20,7 KiB. > > > I tried to open it with kate and, apart from the strange characters, close to the end of the file I could read the following lines: > > > /proc/self/exe .config/.check-home.pid /proc/%s/exe %d .tar CPUINFO=`cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name'`;LSPCI=`lspci`;echo ${CPUINFO}${LSPCI} | sha1sum | head -c 40 check-filesystem /proc/stat btime /bin/sh /bin/busybox <a href="http://test4.lnx-ads.com" target="_blank">test4.lnx-ads.com</a> <a href="http://test6.lnx-ads.com" target="_blank">test6.lnx-ads.com</a> UDP > -c /dev/urandom .local tcp udp /etc/services � � � � /etc/hosts DNSCACHEIP /etc/resolv.conf nameserver search domain /etc/passwd > > > Does anybody know something about this file? Is it dangerous or should I delete it? > Thanks in advance, > Lucas > </div></div>What folder has this? Some application must have created this when it was first run, that folder name will be the clue. I don't have such a file myself. -- clay -- kubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>