From owner-freebsd-security Thu Apr 19 4: 4:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6DC7937B43C for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 04:04:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 747 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Apr 2001 11:02:52 -0000 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:02:52 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: "David G. Andersen" , Kris Kennaway , fukuda shinichi , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unknown process Message-ID: <20010419140252.A454@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , "David G. Andersen" , Kris Kennaway , fukuda shinichi , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200104190324.VAA14081@faith.cs.utah.edu> <20010419123915.A446@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from des@ofug.org on Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:37:10PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:37:10PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Peter Pentchev writes: > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:31:26AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > It's not either/or. The only acceptable solution to this situation is > > > a complete reinstall from a trusted source (e.g. original CD set). > > ..and during the install, examine your backups > > A backup is not a trusted source. Never reinstall from backups after > a compromise. Restoring user data from backup is acceptable as long > as you are certain that none of that data is executable. That's exactly what I said, wasn't it? :) Especially in my second message.. G'luck, Peter -- Thit sentence is not self-referential because "thit" is not a word. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message