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Date:      Fri, 29 Oct 1999 17:17:22 +0200
From:      Beck David <dbeck@freesoft.hu>
To:        "'Dag-Erling Smorgrav'" <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Beck David <dbeck@freesoft.hu>
Cc:        "'freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Strange things on my computer / Help
Message-ID:  <1BD5A68BE9E8D211BBE8006094B9EB73E97F@netfinity.freesoft.hu>

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Beck David <dbeck@freesoft.hu> writes:
> - but the kernel complains in every 10 minutes for some _out_ going
>   ICMP packets, which goes to two hosts. I am absolutely sure
>   that nor me nor any of my programs has nothing to do with that hosts

What kind of ICMP packets? Could you set up a sniffer to capture those
packets? (tcpdump will do). They may be completely benign (e.g.
ICMP_UNREACH or ICMP_TIMXCEED)

> - when I found this I started to look for the program which generates
>   the ICMP packets but I didn't find anything

The TCP/IP stack generates ICMP packets on its own in certain
circumstances.

> Do you guys suspect that my machine got exploited ? /I do, but I can't
> prove it./

Like somebody else suggested, compare MD5 checksums of your system
binaries (using a known-good copy of /sbin/md5) with those of
known-good binaries. The best choice of known-good binaries is the
live file system on the second CD-ROM in the set you used to install
the machine in the first place.

If you can afford the downtime (generally speaking, if you suspect a
compromise, you don't have much choice but to accept the downtime),
boot the system from known-good boot floppies or (preferably) a
bootable CD-ROM such as the one that comes with the Walnut Creek
distribution before running checks.

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- The ICMP type is 3.3: port unreachable

Thank you guys your advises. 
I check my system using the live filesystem.

Cheers, David.





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