From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 14 7:31:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.smartdigitalinc.com (xeon.biad.net [63.241.25.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F45137B418 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 07:31:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from home ([200.80.197.68]) by ns1.smartdigitalinc.com (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fAEFViS56955 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 07:31:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zuez@smartdigitalinc.com) From: "Guido" To: Subject: RE: Adore worm Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:32:01 -0300 Message-ID: <002301c16d21$83499330$55000b0a@home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I heartily disagree with your post this time, maybe I missunderstood you, but, you don?t reinstall your machine once in a while to keep things on top, a simple cvsup once in a while to upgrade the source (if needed..) would be enough. - guido -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of ksemat@wawa.eahd.or.ug Sent: Miercoles, 14 de Noviembre de 2001 12:19 p.m. To: John Baldwin Cc: Stefan Probst; Rob Hurle; freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Adore worm I also add my voice to the hullabaloo. Reinstall the machine, use ssh and do a cvsup to the latest stable release of freebsd. Do this regularly in order to keep on top of things. Noah. On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 13-Nov-01 Stefan Probst wrote: > > Good Evening, > > > > sorry for newbie-posting, but I don't have too much time to sift > > through archives.... > > > > Looks like my FreeBSD 4.2 Box (FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE (GENERIC)) got > > hit by a worm - or infested by purpose: > > It's a rootkit, and your box has been compromised. Backup your data > and reinstall unless someone else has a better idea. > > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power > Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message