Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 03:24:56 -0000 From: jmdupx@yahoo.com To: Tim Uckun <tim@diligence.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Have I been hacked? Message-ID: <3C819788.16419.12FB4C84@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020302124131.00a4b3d0@mail.diligence.com> References: <20020302093251.A72890@lymond.lvcm.com>
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looks to me like perfect symptoms of a dying hard-drive, but a
virus attack would have much the same visible effect usually
Mark
jmdupx_@_yahoo.com
On 2 Mar 2002, at 12:49, Tim Uckun wrote:
I recently installed freebsd 4.5. For various reasons I just let the
install sit for a few weeks. I had turned off everything except ssh
(no other services running).
When I tried to do something the other day I noticed that vi was not
working properly. The screen was all messed up and it would not
show
the text file I was working on (on the console text mode). I thought
maybe VIM would work better so I did a cvsup and then did a make
install on VIM. The install went OK but I still could not edit files
because the screen was fscked up vim. So I did the windows thing
and
rebooted hoping that would somehow dislodge whatever gremlins
were
lurking around the system.
Now I can't log in, not only that but seems to hang up starting the
inetd stuff (I think). I suppose I might have forgotten the password
but I doubt it.
So two questions.
1) I am supposing that I will have to get into single user mode
somehow and change the password is that right?
2) How can I find out if I have been hacked somehow? This is what I
suspect so turned off the machine right away. If have been hacked I
will have to reinstall.
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Tim Uckun
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