list of suspicious item in the list of running PROCESS

[logicmaster2003]

hey all,

Just curious if theres a list of evil suspicious stuffs in the linux list of running PROCESS. List of evil stuffs as in potential trojan / virus / hacker / backdoor, etc.

I use PC Linx OS Gnome edition and on the "system monitor", it shows alot of stuffs such as..

Process name Status %CPU Nice ID Memory
nautilus sleeping 35 0 5593 189M
firefox-bin sleeping 2 0 12182 66.9M

etc etc..

 

[Cogman]

While it is completely possible for a virus to infect your machine, it isn't likely. Linux Is pretty secure because it is fairly obscure (and it is pretty secure by design as well).

Just like in windows, there isn't any sure fire way to tell if a program is malicious or not. In fact, malicious programs often hide their names (very easy to do) so that they match a friendly process name (like firefox-bin).

FYI nautilus and firefox are both safe and normal processes. You shouldn't loose too much sleep over getting a virus, it is fairly rare in windows and even rarer in linux.

 

[Nothinman]

If you want you can run rkhunter and chkrootkit, just remember that like any type of virus/trojan detector they're not 100% reliable.