Re: exploit or human

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:14:49 +0200, Victor Calzado <vcalzado@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Valentin Avram wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> >
> > Most of the symptoms you describe and the "sudden" falling of more
> > systems does point to a rootkit that was installed on the first
> > compromised machine (FC2). That machine might have been later used to
> > gain access to the other servers in your network.
> ...
> > Also the failure to restart the server
> > usually is a consequence of that. One way to make that sure is to get
> > the hdd from the possibly compromised machine, put it on an offline
> > system which has rkhunter (or other rootkit-detection software)
> > installed and check it. After the signs you described, it quite very
> > probably you'll find a rootkit.
> >
> > RH's before RHEL are ok (from the stability point of view) as long as
> > you keep the exposed services uptodate (recompilation from source).
> > Don't use the old software they come with, cause you might just open a
> > door to your system.
> ...
> I'm sorry but probably you will find more infected systems all over your
> network. You will probably need to reinstall every compromised server
> and any content recovered from an "infected" system should be scanned
> for viri and checked for rootkits.

Run chkrootkit: http://www.chkrootkit.org

Regards,

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Eduardo  Bacchi Kienetz
http://www.noticiaslinux.com.br/eduardo/