I always thought that this was one of the beauties of rpm. If you thought
you were hacked, all you need to do is to reinstall rpm a la
rpm -Uvh --force rpm-blahblah
and then run
rpm -Va
to see if any individual files are corrupted.
Am I being naive?
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On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Cole Tuininga wrote:
=>On Nov 1, Tom Laurie claimed:
=>
=>> I've helped a little with other gnhlug members to set up Concord Christian's
=>> Linux box connected to their Mediaone cable running IPChains. They got a
=>> call from ATT Broadband yesterday saying that their computer was being used
=>> to hack into other computers and sure enough, when you reboot their server
=>> it says Zombie at some point.
=>>
=>> Does anyone know how to clean the Zombie off of their server?
=>
=>The word "reinstallation" comes to mind. Once a box has been hacked, you
=>can't trust ANYTHING on it. The unfortunate answer is that you will need
=>to reinstall the entire box.
=>
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