Re: Urgent!!! My computer seems to be hacked, pls HELP!!!

"René Berber" <rberber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

So, you kill the patient in case he has cancer, if he didn't, oh too
bad.

Nah, you don't kill it--you reincarnate it. We have that luxury with
computers.

In other words, don't you think you should at least try to see
how bad the computer was hacked, hey it is even possible that it was
one of those "script kiddies" that you mention.

Once you see that someone got in, got access to an account and started
establishing ssh connections to China, (as in this case), yeah, I'm
saying "It's time to crack out the intallation media and fdisk."

Bottom line, I do agree that there will be situations where you are
better off installing from scratch but, if you know what you are
doing, that will not be 100% of the time.

I agree that you can make a calculated risk mitigated decision that
says "well, if I am still owned through a toehold that I cannot
presently detect with the system rescue CD I got in my box of
Cheerios, I'm willing to live with that if the cost of my rebuild is
this much. I'll take some time and try to get rid of the low hanging
fruit I can find and hope for the best." These are business
realities.

But, if you want to be certain you got everything, you flatten and
reinstall from original media. A lot of businesses and individuals
are fairly risk averse, and if they are not, perhaps they should be.

Antivirus? Oh dear god--are you a windows drone?

Who mentioned Windows?

Is anti-virus a required piece of software on machines other than
Windows?

Did you get a Hello Kitty sticker when you burned that CD?

Is that supposed to be funny? Is this thread amusing to you?

You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a
little fscked up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a
clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fsckin' amuse you?
What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?

So, do you have any experience or just FUD?

Nah, it's all just FUD. I'm a college student who rented a copy of
Hackers last weekend and my mind's been abuzz ever since. ;-)

--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/
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