Re: please read: very odd network traffic
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 01:53, P Kirk pronounced:
> >
> >No offense intended, but this is some of the WORST advice I've heard on
> >this list to date.
> >
> >If you fear you may have been compromised, by all means, and for the
> >love of us all, unplug your network cable at once. If for no other
> >reason than this: Your system could possibly be launching attacks at
> >other systems unbeknownst to you, for which you can be held legally and
> >financially accountable.
> >
> No offence taken. Its worth thinking of a bigger picture. The vast
> majority of *nix boxes are servers. They are production machines and you
> simply cannot pull the cable out. You need time to migrate the service
> to a new machine. I know in an ideal world you'd have backup servers
> for each service but most of us tend to have one backup machine that
> gets reconfigured when it needs to take the place of a production
> machine. This takes time. You do have time. As long as the data is
> intact and the services the machine is intended to provide are running,
> your personal job security is way more important than protecting other
> peoples networks.
>
> >Unplug it NOW, and start doing some digging to find out what's really
UNPLUG IT NOW! that is still the most important advice. and this is even more
important in a production environment. the last thing you want is to have a
server, no matter how important, spreading viruses. the job security
questions are more likely going to be who allowed it to happen in first place
and why wasn't it taken out of the networked!
my $.02 worth.
--
regards,
allen wayne best, esq
"your friendly neighborhood rambler owner"
"my rambler will go from 0 to 105"
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