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Re: [OT]: possible spyware?



H.S. wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I was cleaning up some directories in an acquaintance's machine running  
> Ubuntu Linux (whenever needed, I SSH to his machine from my Debian  
> Lenny) and noticed that one of the directories had a file called "ik"  
> which had this in it:
> ---------------------------------------------
> $ cat ik
> user un22 uyxuyx
> binary
> get postal.exe
> bye
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>
> Any idea what this is? From google, it appears it may be a spyware attempt.

It appears to be a script of commands that could be sent to a ftp client
to log into a ftp server and download a file.

postal.exe certianly seems unsavory on google. No idea how it could do
anything on linux though.

-- 
see shy jo

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