[ale] palm41.dll weirdness

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Sat Sep 18 07:43:21 EDT 2004


Jim Popovitch wrote:
> palm41.dll weirdness:
> 
> Today, after downloading lots of email, via Evolution, to my Linux ONLY
> laptop, I noticed the file palm41.dll in my home directory.  This file
> was plainly not here earlier today.  This is a pretty fresh and patch
> RHEL 3.0 WS install, and up2date as well.  This file did NOT exist
> earlier today as I was doing a lot of work in my home directory (totally
> off net).  
> 
> $ ls -al palm41.dll
> -rw-rw-r--    1 jimpop   jimpop      12288 Mar 13  2003 palm41.dll
> 
> 
> I'm wondering if there is some thing fishy going on here..... any ideas?

Memory that fades around a year and a half later? :)

Run strings on it and see if anything jumps out at you.  Scan it for 
viri.  What does 'file' say about it?

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995



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