Hijacked Xterm

adam.sutton_at_baesystems.com
Date: 06/13/05 

Date: 13 Jun 2005 07:17:47 -0700

Hi I am trying to help a friend figure out what is going on with his
xterm
(actually I think he might be a KDE user, so probably konsole).

Every so often he seems to find random words (not random characters)
typed
into his console.

We run on a private network with no external network access, because
this
is a small works network for relatively computer literate users most
people know the root passwords to machines.

I think this has to be a practical joke, but I am after any advice as
to
how someone might be achieving this.

My first thought was that someone was simply typing stuff when he
wasn't
looking but it has occured when he has been at the machine (he has two
boxes accessed through a KVM, so he wasn't actually looking at the
screen
of the attacked machine at the time).

Thanks

Adam

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