Re: Help need - to remove linux trojan

From: James Riden (james.riden@ed.ac.uk)
Date: 06/28/02


From: James Riden <james.riden@ed.ac.uk>
Date: 28 Jun 2002 13:43:12 +0100

Cristian Costea <cristian.costea@rtc.ro> writes:

> In such cases perform a clean reinstall of the box and restore only users'
> files and no system or binaries if possible or only from trusted sources.
> Do you have a ftp server running with internet access to it ? :)

wu-ftpd, bind, maybe old sshd (and possibly apache now) are good suspects
for RH 6.2. Preferably reinstall a newer RH as it makes patching that
much easier.

cheers,
 Jamie

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James Riden / james.riden@ed.ac.uk / jamesr@europe.com
MSc student, Dept. of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.



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