On Monday 08 May 2006 07:09, Jason Dixon wrote: > On May 8, 2006, at 6:45 AM, dave feustel wrote: > > On Sunday 07 May 2006 11:35, Jason Dixon wrote: > >> I assumed that you would be bright enough to use Google to understand > >> the purpose of kio (virtual file system library). I was mistaken in > >> giving you the benefit of the doubt. Now that you know what kio is > >> for, does it start to make sense why it would access files in /etc > >> that pertain to file sharing? > > > > It is interesting to see the leaps in your logic. I do not run > > samba. It > > actually got installed by my mistake and I deleted as much of it as I > > could because I consider it a big security vulnerability. > > You just don't get it, do you? It doesn't matter if you're running > Samba or not. Kio will attempt to access those files which it is > programmed to use for its purpose (virtual file system library). The > files in /etc that you mentioned are part of this task.
I was beginning to suspect that. Thanks for the confirmation. > -- > Jason Dixon > DixonGroup Consulting > http://www.dixongroup.net