On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Stephen Reichow <stephen.reic...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello, I have found some components of freedesktop.org are being abused > in conjunction with a rootkit infection. > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PolicyKit/PluggableArchitecture/ > > The pluggable architecture is the SSH component of a malware rootkit on my > computer, giving remote attackers access. > > Any help would be appreciated. > I don't think PolicyKit is at fault, here. If you have permissions to write to /usr/lib, where the plugins are stored, you can do a lot of damage by installing a replacement glibc, for instance. Do you know how the infection started? > Thank You -Steve > > > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > xdg@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > > -- Jasper
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