I'm having a regular problem that I can't figure out what is going wrong.
Every once in a while (I think it is a daily problem), the command auxd uses up all my processor capacity. As you can see I'm running this machine in a vmware environment.
I've tried and look what this process is, but it is not common I guess?
I can kill the process, but after a while the process is automatically executed again. I'm running centos 6.5 with kernel: 2.6.32-504.1.3.el6.x86_64 I've tried updating my system to the latest version but that didn't help. This is my top output when the process hangs..
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
46939 root 20 0 778m 20m 1140 S 795.7 0.1 8418:57 auxd
Hopefully somebody can point me into the direction what this problem might be or how to solve it.
this process related to a mining program to generate bitcoin (or other crypto money equivalents) through a site , to see which site it is contacting use htop command or a similar one.
probably you installed such a program or your pc is compromised.
update: if your computer is compromised there is possibility of an attack to your computer because of recent "Shellshock" vulnerability in bash look at this for start: http://www.troyhunt.com/2014/09/everything-you-need-to-know-about.html