Subj : Re: What is this .sheep/ that appeared in my home folder?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : rnwvr
Date : Thu Jul 29 2004 09:25 am

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 04:39:15 +0100, Paul Nolan wrote:

> Sometime this evening, a folder called .sheep appeared in my home folder,
> containing the files gen165 (empty), id (the word 'none') and lock
> (empty). I only noticed this when pon and kppp both failed to connect to
> the internet. My modem seemed fine, and an AT&F did nothing to help, so I
> went searching for unusual stuff in my home folder that might stop this.
> When I deleted .sheep, the problem went away.
> 
> Is this a virus or something? If so, will it keep happening, or was it
> just a one off?
> 
> Thanks, Paul.

Did you install electric sheep (I believe it's a screensaver but I can be
wrong...) If so the .sheep directory is nothing more than electric sheep's
config dir :)

greets,
michael

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