"KWrited - listening on device /dev/pts/0" ??

From: DMS (phonlabREMOVE@NOSPAMu.washington.edu)
Date: 05/05/02 

From: "DMS" <phonlabREMOVE@NOSPAMu.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 21:47:17 -0700

I recently installed Mandrake 8.1. (for the 3rd time! :) ) My machine is
on a university network. I frequently get a popup KWrited document on my
desktop that is labeled "listening on device /dev/pts/0" and the makes a
long list of audio and font files locating them on several of my partitions.
The partitions are:

the /dev/ ... (of my secondary drive that contains an alternate boot of
Redhat 5.1)
the /usr/share/ ...
the /var/lib ...
the /var/tmp ...

I assume people used my machine's drives as a way station for napster like
file transfer...

I just poked around in the Control Panel and set my security to medium ...
that seems to have stopped it. At least I am not getting any more KWrited
listening docs popping up ... (I didn't do this before because during
install I requested high security but it appears "Crackers" level somehow
got installed anyway.)

Am I right about what was going on and why? What, if anything, more should
I do additionally? I saved a copy of the KWrited listing of files ...
should I delete the files?

Is there any chance there some kind of worm or trojan horse on my machine
now?

(Background: This machine is only a work station ... the only LAN/network
usage is for 8.1 to access the web and to print to a network printer ... I
think I'll just unplug the cat5 when booted to RH5.1 as I imagine network
connectivity/protection will be difficult/complicated for such a old dist..
Unless there is a setting/config I can give the RH 5.1 boot that will
completely disable the lan connection when booted to 5.1?)

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