run strings on it.. Does it say anything interesting?
> I checked Symantec's and McAfee's virus site for the file and turned up
> empty. It's not a virus or an abortive attempt at one. And a search of
> www.securityfocus.com came up empty. If you are running squid, it came up in
> a recent Linux Advisory Watch(7/29/01). If you search for squid on
> securityfocus, it comes up. Now to figure out how it got there.
>
> Jim
>
> On Wednesday August 01, 2001 4:20 am, Mike Andrew wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01 August 2001 17:30, Jay Nugent wrote:
> > > Take a look at 'man chattr'. You may find that the append-only bit is
> > > set in the file attributes. A common trick by crackers to keep files
> > > from being moved/renamed (mv) or removed (rm), even by root! But you
> > > should be able to set the attributes back to normal with chattr and then
> > > be able to delete the file :-)
> >
> > every once in a while, I get a total gem from you lot. That's a keeper.
>
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