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I don't remember installing it, everything about it seems "legitimate" grepping through the logs the installation date seems to be 21st January. There was always some slow down when I initially started firefox and today I had HTOP open just to see what was happening and Clamav and ClamAV freshclam process was there. How do I check if it is compromised or which user if any installed it?

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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Was anything else installed on the 21st? Might have been pulled down as a dependency of something.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 points 21 hours ago

to answer this question: if you're on a dpkg-based system, check /var/log/dpkg.log (or /var/log/dpkg.log.2.gz to get logs from January, if your system rotates them once a month).

[–] signalsayge@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Or as a way for someone putting malware on the system to keep other malware away...

[–] iii@mander.xyz 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

As a start, you can use opensnitch to see what connections it makes.

[–] TorJansen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago

Or Wireshark

[–] Veraxis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

ClamAV

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But on a serious note, no, I have no idea why that would happen.