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What should I do? First, I'd like to say that I loved the old version of Konfabulator, and I don't know why they went and changed so much of it in Version 3.x. I've had plenty of trouble with the new version.
Here's why I say I think it's been hacked: When I run it, I use mostly system monitoring widgets because I hate not knowing what's going on (and through) my computer. Lately I've been running:
Yahoo! Weather PTemp30 SimpleMonitor Digital Clock UTC Clock freeSpace Desktop Calender
Sometimes, if those are acting strange, I get rid of Simple Monitor and switch to:
CPU Portal Bandwith_Graph Memory Gauge
Without the current version of YaHoo! Widget Engine running, my Processor (P4 3.2Ghz) idles at about 5% usage.
With YWE, my CPU idols at about 20% and my 100Mbps Network connection is working at at about 0.09% or 14.0KB/s (I'm connected to Cable modem that is supposed to Max out at about 500-700KB/s)
Normally, my Ram usage % is about 54% (according to Simple Monitor and Memory Gauge), but for some unknown reason, my Memory usage is at 82% today.
Anyway, here's what I've seen happen:
I will have these monitors working, and all are showing steady reading in the ranges I quoted above, but the last few nights, (usually very late 1:30-3:30am) while on DU reading something or typing a reply or something, I've looked up to find my CPU usage going crazy, usually between 70% and 100% usage. Most of the time it corresponds with really High network bandwidth usage too.
Normally what I do when I see that is, I use my Norton Internet Security program to "Block Traffic," which it does, it stops the through-put cold, and usually the CPU usage goes way down too, back to the 20-25% range. But last night, it stopped the traffic, but the CPU usage kept going (stayed at 70%). I should probably say, my hard drives are usually getting hit too while this is happening.
So when I saw the CPU still going, I started shutting things down, one of the first was the YaHoo! Widget Engine, and when I shut that down, everything went back to normal.
So that's why I think this has something to do with the YWE. So what should I do now? Who should I contact about this?:shrug:
BTW, I just remembered what could be behind my increased Memory usage, I went to a Microsoft Security (Beta) site last night, and downloaded a system scanning program, it might also be monitoring my system too, I'm not sure though.
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