Firestarter

Thelemech

Wondering if you have to keep Firestarter Ubuntu minimized to keep it running? The icon at the top disappears if you do not.
Also - I was Using Ubuntu/Firefox, and had a classic spyware scenario yesterday {Firefox suddenly restarts, filling only half the screen upon doing so, and there I am at YourPCisInfectedWillRunAFreeScanToMake
EverythingWorse.com) / And now my PC is churning that HD to Beat All Heck! Although user performance seems the exact same.
And now there are 154 serious attempts to penetrate my system.
I have a Windows partition on this machine. I have done some googling on some of the services and most seem to be MS? Hacking my Windows partition via my Ubuntu? - or vice-versa? I was also wandering if possibly the XP partition might be infected, and perhaps some foreign computer is sending something expecting it to access Windows? (same IP?)
On a side note this machine is in no way critical in it's current state (P2 Windows/Ubuntu experiment machine!) and there is no "emergency to fix it" - I'll just do a new install - probably give Kubuntu a whirl.
I would like to know what is going on though - and how to deal with the problem in the future!?

drasnor

This is normal MS worm traffic. A Windows firewall normally doesn't even bother you with this stuff because it's everywhere. You may want to put your machine behind a NAT layer to obviate that stuff. As for your Firefox business, don't browse places that hijack your browser. You can fix it by dumping your .mozilla directory in /home/username. Unless you were running it as root, in which case you will probably want to format your hard drive.

-drasnor

Thelemech

Thanks for the replies drasnor, much appreciated! I've been running in root - going to go with the Kubuntu experiment next - besides I have been setting up Ubuntu (as I've been studying it) on my main computer.