Can't reboot, shutdown, or init 3 [I've been root-kitted, please advise]

[Scot L. Harris]

On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 23:20, Arthur Pemberton wrote:

> Looks like i've been root ktited :(
> 
> My googling turned up this, which shows a case of my symptoms.
> 
> :(
> 
> How do I recover from this

Bare metal re-install is the only real thing to do. I hope you had
backups of your important data from a time before the suspected root kit
was installed.

Any idea on how they got in?  phpnuke on the system?

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