From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Mar 2 19:27:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp013.mail.yahoo.com (smtp013.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1ED8137B402 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 19:27:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from jmdupx (AUTH login) at ppp-225-0-249.friaco.access.uk.tiscali.com (HELO jmdoliv) (jmdupx@80.225.0.249) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Mar 2002 03:27:33 -0000 From: jmdupx@yahoo.com To: Tim Uckun Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 03:24:56 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Have I been hacked? Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Message-ID: <3C819788.16419.12FB4C84@localhost> In-reply-to: <4.2.0.58.20020302124131.00a4b3d0@mail.diligence.com> References: <20020302093251.A72890@lymond.lvcm.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. ---------------------------------------------- Tim Uckun Mobile Intelligence Unit. ---------------------------------------------- "There are some who call me TIM?" ---------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message