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Re: See what a weak password will get ya?



On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:42:53 -0500
Paul Stolp <paulywall@myrealbox.com> wrote:
>
> I checked in on some bittorrent progress today at lunch, noticed my
> process monitor showing full activity. Ran top, saw user "guest" logged
> on, running 4 instances of a program named "t", and short term load
> average over 4. AARRRRGGGHHH!
> shutdown -h now  !

Believe it or not, this is often a bad idea.  It's often easier to
determine the scope of a compromise by watching the intrude for a little
while than to attempt to find out afterwards with forensics.


> pull network cable
> reboot
> look for damage, whew, I was O.K.

How did you determine this?

-c

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