As an additional precaution, you might want to look into getting and using chkrootkit. It searches your system for evidence that you've already been hacked, and seems to check for a fairly comprehensive list of trojans, worms, etc.
If you're serious about security, you should also look into Tripwire and AIDE (sp?), which will make a database of your key files and can check them for alteration on a regular basis. -Jason On Thursday 07 November 2002 04:44 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > I'd run an nmap scan of my box. do urpmi nmap --fuzzy to find out all > the rpms available here (nmap is nmap but there are some different gui's > available) Run the scan and if you see something open that you don't > want open, close it. The biggest reason this is useful is because it's > the same technique the black hats use to find out where and how to > attack. > > James > > On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 04:08, Gonzalo Avaria wrote: > > Hi you all, well THANK YOU very much for the answers, > > i thought that you could not hack a machine with FTP, > > but when i started to look for the logs, i saw 3 guys > > trying to get thru the ftp, but only conected for like > > a second. > > Now i disabled the FTP and only work on sftp. > > I would like to ask the last question about this > > subject: > > > > how can i know if there is a hole on my machine? > > Something i don't know? > > > > Thanks again. > > saludos > > > > ===== > > Gonzalo Avaria > > Alumno de Licenciatura en Fisica > > Facultad de Cs. Fisicas y Matematicas > > Universidad de Concepcion > > CHILE > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. > > Visítanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com > > > > ---- > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ========================= Worlds of belief, she [Susan] thought. Just like oysters. A little piece of shit gets in and then a pearl grows around it. (Hogfather)
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