Bartosz Oudekerk wrote:

> tighten your system security.
> firewall, disabling of unused services and whatever else you can think
> of, and only then reconnect it to the network.
>

Thanks.

yes I am runing a firewall (i.e. firestarter). I regulary check with
Shieldsup security web page. There from from 1055 or so ports only ports 67
and 68 (bootstrap protocole server/client ports)show up as closed. The rest
of the ports show as stealth and seem silent. I thought I was fine, maybe
not.

I think I did not install any ftp, sendmail, etc software/services (that I
did not think I would need) at install time. However I see NFS being loaded
at boot time. How Could I disable that? Do not seem to need it.

I'll check chkrootkit to check why /var/log/messages is empty meanwhile.

It would be too much work to backup and reinstall. I am trying to avoid that
If I can because then I would have to recompile/reinstall my nonstandard
Libray files and programms, the kernel, NVIDIA drivers, etc.