possible hacker attempt/virus

[Lancelot]

Re: possible hacker attempt/virus

I also get and error that my firewall need root permission to start.

I don't know which firewall you use, but what you wrote sounds familiar to me. I use Guarddog and it sometimes needs to start this shell command with root permission at the start of the session :

/etc/rc.firewall

Or it blocks all traffic. I had to learn how to autostart it for all users with root permissions. Maybe you need other shell command, but your problem could be the same.

Yes I now am sure it is the firewall. I did 1 reboot where it did not reject it due to not having root priveliges (which is strange anyway) and the log didn't give the error.