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Date:      22 Sep 1998 10:19:39 -0700
From:      Faried Nawaz <self@partners-in-light.chai.org>
To:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HELP: hacked by John the Ripper
Message-ID:  <lw67eggj4k.fsf@terror.hungry.com>
In-Reply-To: ping@stepnet.com's message of 22 Sep 1998 09:43:52 -0700
References:  <199809221554.IAA02712@pushkar.stepnet.com>

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ping@stepnet.com (Ping Mai) writes:

  It seems my system has been hacked.  The hacker altered the DNS tables and
  left a passwd cracker in /bin.  There were DNS db files that were invisible
  to "/bin/ls", but they show up from "od" dump of the directory.  Can someone
  help me to find out how he got in initially?

Can you display the files by going into the name directory and typing
"echo *"?  Can you read them via an editor?


  What should I do at this point?
  Should I wipe the disk on this system?

If you're certain that you've been hacked, yes.
How do you think they got in?

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