Found left trouble

[Chris]

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:09:31 -0700
"Alan M. Evans" <fedoralist at alanevans.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 17:02 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >     I was hacked last month and had a simple password for my name
> > which is internal and only seen here in my room or, I forgot, a
> > person using ssh. This German hacker just turned on my firefox web
> > browser several times to a German web page that never fully loads
> > up. I was happy because he could have done something worse.
> > 
> >     Well he did. While using the web browser it would sudden change
> > to a full screen colored thing and my mouse and keyboard stopped
> > working. Today I went to the source of my Firefox and it is at 
> > /home/karl/work/firefox/. There are about 30 files there and I
> > studied them and there were two that looked odd. I did ls -al and
> > found they were made the same day I was hacked! Then looked and
> > they were exicutables and I deleted both. This seems to have
> > stopped this problem.
> > 
> >     Time will tell but it is just like the German's to do this kind
> > of thing. It hurts and they don't give a crap.
> 
> I almost hate to say it: "SELinux".
> 

*nod* along with other tools to install, chkrootkit, scan yer PC's, etc.
If you really want to use ssh - consider keys instead of passwords -
then again, you know all this Karl, I'm just preachin' to the choir :)

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Best regards,
Chris
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