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Did you try to check the basic setup of the linux system, like users set up in /etc/shadow (is there shadow~ as a backup?) , groups and their permissions, cronjobs for specific users and system users?
Did you try to get chkrootkit from debian repo installed?
 

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Did you try to check the basic setup of the linux system, like users set up in /etc/shadow (is there shadow~ as a backup?) , groups and their permissions, cronjobs for specific users and system users?
Maemo ain't got no /etc/shadow
 

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can you log the dbus commands used to send sms? (if the program is using that interface)
 

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It's beginning to look like it might have been smscon. When I looked at smscon's logs, it stated something like, "WARNING: running in stolen mode". It would then send SMS messages to +0123456789 periodically. Also ever since removing smscon I haven't had any outgoing sms messages to egypt or romania (YET).

However, I will keep you updated because it might not be smscon.

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Originally Posted by zitstif View Post
It's beginning to look like it might have been smscon. When I looked at smscon's logs, it stated something like, "WARNING: running in stolen mode". It would then send SMS messages to +0123456789 periodically. Also ever since removing smscon I haven't had any outgoing sms messages to egypt or romania (YET).

However, I will keep you updated because it might not be smscon.
You may want to ask in the SMSCON thread and also read the smscon wiki page.
I have been using SMSCON with no issues for sometime.

The +0123456789 number you speak of in the logs maybe incorrect, IIRC some of the smscon.log personal data is stripped for security reasons.
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The +0123456789 is of course a dummy (not a valid country code), so there may be any number behind.
Keep us updated ...
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One solution that's worth trying, if you've got an old/other phone about is to get a PAYG sim and the minimum credit. Then use this PAYG number as the smscon "emergency contact". If you try the number of someone you know, warm him/her first: if you wake up at 3 o'clock in the night and check your phone for the time, he/she will get an sms!

smscon is not malware but, yes, it will send messages to the predefined number whenever the phone does something.
 

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No sms messages out to egypt or romania so far.

For the record I didn't configure smscon either, I just installed it.

I had it installed a year or two ago without having this problem. So I wonder if the maintainers/developers updated it?
 

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So far.. no more outgoing messages to Egypt or Romania.. I think it may have been smscon.
 

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Have you tried asking in the smscon thread?
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