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Date:      Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:36:14 +0530
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        Glenn McCalley <freebsd@mail.bnetmd.net>
Cc:        Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What the heck is -this- file?
Message-ID:  <20000802093614.D3000@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008012222060.18902-100000@mail.bnetmd.net>; from freebsd@mail.bnetmd.net on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 10:28:09PM -0400
References:  <012301bffc28$bdd3a9c0$48440ace@mark8> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008012222060.18902-100000@mail.bnetmd.net>

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I've seen such things with a corrupted hard disk.  Try unmounting it
and forcibly fsck-ing it.=20

Glenn McCalley said on Aug  1, 2000 at 22:28:09:
>=20
> Malicious - my first thought as well.  This machine is a box leased to a=
=20
> single client with maybe 6 ID's on it, so if it's someone not nice I'd say
> it's coming from outside.  Tried my best to see if there really -is- some
> file content there despite the 0 byte count but couldn't see anything.  Oh
> well, suppose it's time for them to do the security review.
>=20
> Thanks!
> Glenn.
>=20
> On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Josh Paetzel wrote:
>=20
> >=20
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Glenn McCalley" <freebsd@mail.bnetmd.net>
> > To: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
> > Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 8:59 PM
> > Subject: Re: What the heck is -this- file?
> >=20
> >=20
> > >
> > > Ahhh, but you don't understand...
> > > That's just the point - the "gobblygook" -is- the file name as shown =
by
> > >  "ls -l"
> > > Glenn.
> > >
> >=20
> > In that case I would start to wonder about the integrity of my system f=
rom
> > either a hardware standpoint, or perhaps a malicious "user" standpoint.
> >=20
> >=20
> > > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Glenn McCalley" <freebsd@mail.bnetmd.net>
> > > > To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 7:56 PM
> > > > Subject: What the heck is -this- file?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > What??!!
> > > > > Just poking around and found the following file entry in
> > /apache/htdocs:
> > > > >
> > > > > -rwsr-sr-t   1 root     wheel           0 Mar 28 15:33 J-=FFyq>=
=F6tn0=1D=EA?
> > > > > =EE=D3=A5~o=A8Q=8D=11R>s=D5:N5Y;=CDjO=BB=FA=D5-Ou=C58DW=C7<=D9=A2=
5ln}e8$=E2=E2'Y=F6E"=AEcFk=BA=F6=A1=04
> > > > > =F5=CDfC=EBa=D6R s
> > > > >
> > > > > Kinda odd that it's suid, owned by root, with a sticky bit set?  =
-0-
> > > > > bytes in size?  Is that right?
> > > > >
> > > > > I was able to delete it, but other than sunspots, any thoughts on=
 how
> > it
> > > > > got there?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > Glenn.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > I don't know, but hopefully the same thing that made that file didn=
't
> > put
> > > > the gobblygook into you email as well. :)
> > > >
> > > > Josh
> >=20
> >=20
> >=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
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