Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 01:56:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Jayson Alvarez <jay2xra@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help: I think I've been hacked! what can I do?? Message-ID: <20040615085655.37520.qmail@web51608.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi, Last night before this morning, I was browsing fine with kde's konqueror. I don't remember doing anything about my system rather than dialing through ppp. This morning, when I ppp to dial into internet... my external modem established a successful connection(because I can see the LED's are lightened up the way I usually see it). But when I launch the konqueror and typed something in the address bar and hit enter, it says <Unknown Host> Next, I tried browsing through Links in my shell but it still says Unknown Host. I even rebooted my machine and tried dialing again.. but still says <unknown host> whichever browser I use. I've tried to ping 127.0.0.1 and it replied. I've tried to ping http://www.google.com but it says there was an error. I've type ifconfig in the shell and it returned something like 198.0.2...---->198.3.4...(just an example) at the bottom which indicates that I have a successful connection with my isp and they have provided me with a public ip address. I'm sending this email to you from Windows and I'm pretty sure that my external modem is working fine. Question: Do you have any idea what could have happened with my pc? I honestly think that I've been hacked and I am being denied of service. Now, I only have one thing in my mind... to back up my files and reformat my freebsd partition. If you know something better than formatting my pc, please tell me where should I begin... One last thing... Other than those of recovered vi sessions, I can read some unusual mails about system occurances etc.. when I logged in as a root(but I dont know what they really mean) Looking forward to your kindness, -jay :=( __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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