I've some similar "paranoia" (or let's rather call it reasonable suspiciousness) for you guys.8-bit wrote:my IO seems to have slowed up greatly upon initial access to drives from the desktop.
Rox is taking a lot longer to come up.
After it is up, it works fine.
But if I exit ROX and then start ROX again, the lag reappears.
I might try reverting to a saved pupsave file to see if the problem persists.
Other frugal installs of Puppy do not seem to have that lag when starting ROX and I did not run the programs to check for a rootkit on them.
EDIT:
After posting this, no more message and IO improved with ROX.
I've just discovered this:
When a network interface is setup but there's no internet connection, the startup of ROX and Firefox lag (I've all update checks in FF unselected). This seems to also be the case in older pups (431).
I've checked my router's log (LinkSys BEFSR41) and it isn't displaying anything of interest, but clearly there is something going on here.
Exactly why & what would that be, I wonder??