[opensuse] XVNC Activating itself -- sign of scurity breach?


In the past two months, I've had two incidents where, when I ran 'top,' I found XVNC running (and taking up a good 75% of my CPU), for no apparent reason on my 10.2 system.
Now, I have "Remote Desktop Sharing" turned on on this machine (though I've never been able to get VNC to connect across the LAN from my WXP laptop -- only browsing to http://host:5801 works so far), but at neither of these incidents had I been using, or even attempting to use, a VNC or RD connection to the 10.2 machine, at any time in the recent past.
So, if I'm not trying to access this machine via VNC, is there any reason that XVNC would show so much activity? Is this, potentially, a sign that my machine is being accessed from outside? And if so, how do I go about nailing down exactly what's happening? I've never had to deal with intrusions before, so I'm a bit out of my depth here.



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