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Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed



On Friday 24 August 2007 16:16, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Those trojans trash very many files whenever anyone tries surgery on them.
> That was found out in a security lab by security professionals.  If you
> can get to a friends computer and download the dban iso file from
> http://dban.sf.net and burn that on a single session CD and boot it up on
> the infected machine and at the boot prompt type autonuke dban will return
> your hard drive to the state it was in before it got its first operating
> system.  Once finished, shut the machine down and leave it off for a
> minute.  That should clear the memory.  If security professionals had a
> hard time, I'm sure I wouldn't have a chance.  dban will take a day to
> clear a 300gb disk.  Figure 8 hours for a 100gb disk.

Why do you believe a security erasure is needed rather than simply
starting with a fresh block zero?  If infected, the OP can use a
Debian Installation CD and make new partition tables.

--Mike Bird



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