[tor-relays] I'm Running A Tor Exit But Never Initiated It

[Percy Blakeney]

There is NO ONE else in this house that uses my computers other than my 13
year old daughter who plays Minecraft on hers.  I have one Dell desktop
that runs Linux Mint Rosa, however, sometimes when I turn it on a black
screen appears with a message stating "VirtualBox restarting."   Neither my
child nor myself installed VirtualBox on the desktop.  I also have an Acer
laptop that runs Linux Mint Mate and a Lenovo that runs Windows 10.  When I
try to install the Tor browser on my Acer it tells me I already have it and
it's running, however when I try to open it I'm told I don't have it.  Yet
my folders and files tell me otherwise.  I have so much to get out that
once again I'll apologize for my ADD responses.

On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 11:23 AM, krutt at anche.no <krutt at anche.no> wrote:

> Hey percy,
>
> I can't image a single reason why Tor should be configured to run a
> relay without the system admins knowledge. Are there any other useres
> with root access at those machines?
> You could issue "(sudo) ls -al" on that folder to find out when the Tor
> configs were created. Are there any other settings set in your torrc?
>
> I'm not quite sure but this could be a "good" crypto locker too.
>
> Best regards,
> KRutt
>
> Percy Blakeney:
> > According to files and folders I have on two separate computers in my
> > house, I am running a Tor exit but I absolutely have nothing to do with
> > it.  I am only able to physically view certain files ie; var/log/tor,
> > etc/tor/torrc, while other files like var/lib/tor/lock the content is
> > invisible.  I am MORE than willing to talk to anyone who may be able to
> > help.
> >
> >
> >
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