I didn't do it!

[infiniphunk]

Seems my "Trash" bin on my desktop has changed its name to "wastebin". How about that! Have I been cracked?! Is someone messing with me and this is their funny little way of dropping the hint on me? Does anyone know how else this would happen? My girlfriend did click "align to grid" earlier on my desktop. Would that do it(I doubt it) Well, I'm un-plugging the network cable, copying /var/log to disc and reformatting...:eek:

[psi42]

Well, I don't know.............

Sounds like someone just sat down at your computer and started messing around...

:)

~psi42

[infiniphunk]

Nobody sat down and started messing around. Like I said, my girlfriend did right-click on the desktop and click "icons">"align to grid" and now instead of it being called "Trash" its called "wastebin". The really weird thing is that if I move the icon into another folder it becomes "Trash" again. Does someone know how I can change it back and how this could happen? Thanks!

[infiniphunk]

Here is what it looks like now:

[JohnT]

What desktop?

[infiniphunk]

KDE 3.2
I wonder if messing with "kpersonalize" did it somehow?
ok now I'm lost.:confused:

[JohnT]

Try changing icon themes. You might have to just delete your personal KDE folders in your ~/users directory and log back in to start a new pesonality.

[infiniphunk]

Thank you so much JohnT for teaching me how that works! I deleted .KDE just like you said, ended session and started again and now its back to being called "Trash" again. Sure would like to know what caused that though. Would it show in my logs somewhere? If so, what should I look for? Thanks again, your help is very much appreciated!:D

[JohnT]

I really haven't a clue. The term wastebin is not commonly used here in the US. That might give you a clue to is origins.. M/B some software you installed.:confused:

[infiniphunk]

Well I went and did the total n00b thing; reformatted / and reinstalled it all. I keep my /home on another partition on my 2nd hard drive, so I still have all my stuff. I'm still totally in the dark as to how this could have happened. Again, It may be just a quirk in KDE, I dunno, I'm still almost positive its nothing we did. I mean, I fiddle with KDE settings all the time and I've never seen this, so...
Its not like I use a lot of apps that access the web, although I do use winmx thru wine, and from what I know P2P can easily become a vulerability capable of compromizing a system. I do use a firewall locally on my compy and I think my router protects us from port-scans and all, but I wonder if winmx somehow tunnels through all that and crackers have a way of exploiting it. The only other thing I use is amsn, firefox and mozilla, its not like I'm running a webserver or FTP or anything. I did copy my whole /var/log to a cd so this will give me an opportunity to learn how those files work.
They must have been trying to get at ~/mom's secret recipes again, some of those are famous. I'm gonna go back to keeping them hand-written in a paper scrapbook again!!!:rolleyes:

[rocketpcguy]

if your worried about security, just download all the updates of your os