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Re: Potential Virus or System Message?



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s. keeling wrote:
> Incoming from Faithful John:
> 
>>I got this weird message, when I left my email through Telnet/Pine
>>running when I left my house.

> 
> I'd say someone got in, and they got in far enough to shutdown the
> machine, which generally means root.  Time to reinstall.  Next time,
> go through the "ps fax" list, and anything that shouldn't be running,
> disable it.

Uh, I'd say he had a telnet session opened to a remote host, and that
remote host shutdown. Doesn't have anything to do with his box.

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/phil


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