Don't laugh ... porn problems!

[SlowCoder]

I work at a school and am in charge of maintaining the school's firewall. A teacher gave me a site (www.weathertalk.com) to add to the block list, which use to be a valid weather site, and at some point became a porn site.

It is common practice to verify the contents of a site before blocking it. This I did, on my Linux box. Now, any time I start X/KDE, I get a couple of X-rated popups. I'm sure these are somewhere in a startup scripts for X or KDE, but I've been unable to locate them, as I am still a Linux newb.

Can anyone give me a hint as to where to look for this?

[jeremy1701]

I believe the X startup scripts are /etc/rc.d (???), but I doubt a website could modify those. KDE startup scripts are found in /home/user/.kde/Autostart. I'd start there.

I'm curious what happens when you start Gnome?

Jeremy

[ooop]

First of all, how did you do when you "verifyed" that this was indeed a pr0n site...?

And secondly, if this things keep popping up every time you start KDE, then it probably has something to do with the session settings....

I can't say what exactly would be the problem,
but I would try to check session settings and such
for KDE ...

/ooop

[SlowCoder]

1. I checked the .kde/Autostart directory, and found only a .directory file.
2. It would seem to me that if anything got changed in the rc.d directory, that it would affect the computer systemwide, not only KDE.
3, When I run Gnome, I don't get the popups. Therefore it does appear to be directly related to KDE. I get the feeling that Konquerer is somehow the cuplrit, as that is my primary web browser, and the one I use to check the sites.
4. I'm not sure where to look for the session settings. I don't believe they're stored in the .kde directory.
5. To ooop: I'm not sure the nature of your question as to how I check for verification, but I don't know how to check difinitively the nature of a site except to visit it directly.
6. At the risk of being slapped around by the Linux gurus here, I guess it would be a good idea to tell you that I am using the root account. I know it's stupid, and I should kick myself.

[jeremy1701]

6. At the risk of being slapped around by the Linux gurus here, I guess it would be a good idea to tell you that I am using the root account. I know it's stupid, and I should kick myself.

Damn foolish idea.

Regardless, clear the cache, cookies and tmp files for Konqueror. If you don't know where they're at, you can find the info here:

http://docs.kde.org/en/3.2/kdebase/k...html#id2897626

Good luck. Oh and BTW... try running as user

Jeremy

[big_k105]

well im not sure what could be the problem but as you are running as root. it could be a number of places. because that means that it could write the to any file on your system. i would recommend maybe running a file on the domain name that is popping up and see if you find anything that could be the cause of the problem good luck. and try to use a user account from now on

[jeremy1701]

well im not sure what could be the problem but as you are running as root. it could be a number of places. because that means that it could write the to any file on your system.

I didn't even think of that! Just one (million) more reason(s) to not run as root. Especially when surfing the net.

Jeremy

[SlowCoder]

Ok, I've been appropriately beaten by the guys here for my stupidity. I'll make sure to change my ways.

Here's what I found:
I grepped and found the url in a file located in ~/.kde/share/config/session/konquorer... I checked another linux system and found that the other system did not have this file, so I trashed the file. Now all that pops up is an empty Konquerer window instead of the offending page. So now I feel I'm moving closer to the fix. For the sake of interest, I'd like to be able to get rid of the blank window also.

Trust me folks, I'm learning a lot here, so I really appreciate the help here.

Any ideas on the blank window?

[SlowCoder]

I figured it out! I removed entries in ~/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc that started konqueror.

I've got to admit that learning Linux, while fun for me, can also be nerve-racking.

Anyway ... I'll be sure to use a non-root account, and thanks for all the help you've provided.