Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:16:16 -0500 From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com> To: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca> Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some Followup on that ypchfn mess of mine Message-ID: <200107271716.MAA15378@chrome.jdl.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:38:24 EDT." <3B616ED0.8050808@lmc.ericsson.se>
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So, like "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" was saying to me just the other day:
> Hi.
>
> Sorry to be a pain, but you really should kill this machine. Just backup
> your data, format the drive and reinstall from trusted source.
>
> You can't just keep playing around this box and expect to fix
> everything. Unless you already had some IDS such as tripwire, it's
> almost impossible.
>
> Reinstall. It's for your own good. :)
>
> A.
OK, I'll state it publicly:
This machine will be rebuilt from sources.
The old disk will be completely reformatted.
I'm putting a new firewall in place first.
jdl
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