When you choose your password, please do not choose a name or a word from a dictionary. Checking your account For each of your accounts on a Unix system, please perform the following simple tests to see if your account has been tampered with. This file redirects or otherwise processes your email. You may not have one if you do not forward or filter your email. Check your mail box.
Some hackers create file names with control characters in their names to confuse the output of ls .
On any other system within the University, contact the system's administrator and the departmental or college computer manager with details. On any system outside the University, contact the system's administrator. Under all circumstances, when you find something suspicious, report it and do not change anything until the system administrator says so.