Mike Leone on Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:54:54 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Need Feedback


> > Sounds like a virus.  It also seems that the person who this happened to
> was
> > logged in as root or someone with root privliges.
>
> A Linux virus on a floppy disk?!  I hope not.  And, yes, he was logged in
as
> root.

Sounds like he may have been "rooted", then. Check for a root kit - replaced
binaries with specially hacked ones.

Logging in as root. Tsk, tsk, tsk. :-)




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