Kevin D. McAllister on Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:21:55 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Need Feedback


chkrootkit (http://www.chkrootkit.org/) can be useful for that type of work.  Its not the end all
be all.  But its a good start.  A better start is running something
like Tripwire (http://www.tripwire.org/) all along.


On or about Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 02:02:50PM -0500, Mike Leone wrote:
> > > 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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