RE: Help, possible rootkit
From: Tony Langdon (ATC) (tlangdon_at_atctraining.com.au)
Date: 10/25/04
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To: "'Ralph W. Reid'" <rreid@sunset.net>, "'incidents@securityfocus.com'" <incidents@securityfocus.com> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:38:31 +1000
> This kind of intermittent behavior _might_ indicate that a
> piece of hardware in your system is getting flakey on its way
> to failure. I have seen an HPUX and a LINUX system behave
> similarly when hardware involved with hard drives and hard
> drive control began to fail. Some one who has seen a
> hardware failure on a system with your OS may be able to shed
> more light on this kind of problem for you. HTH.
I concur. I have seen extremely slow operation and "jumpy" mouse
behaviour/system non responsive intermittently (several seconds on/off) on
NT boxes with a failing disk. I'd be surprised if XP didn't behave the same
way on a flaky disk.
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