On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 14:45, Brian wrote: > For some reason, it was not prompting me to enter su password nor was it > launching net_monitor. I had fears of a rootkit, despite what chkrootkit > returned, so I did an MD5 checksum and there were inconsistencies. I wiped > the root partition and restored a safe backup. All is well, although I plan > to review my system security to avoid this in the future. > > Brian
Sounds like it may have just been file corruption rather than a planned attack... > > On Friday 07 March 2003 02:35 pm, diego wrote: > > Consolehelper is a program that makes you enter root/admin/... password > > before executing the program itself. There are programs that need to be > > run with more priviledges and this is like a graphical version of > > sudo... > > > > El jue, 06-03-2003 a las 20:42, Brian escribi�: > > > I just had some strange behavior on my system. > > > > > > I noticed that net_monitor was not working. I went into /usr/sbin and > > > sure enough net_monitor was now a link to a file called > > > /usr/bin/consolehelper and there was a working version of net_monitor > > > called net_monitor.real. > > > > > > I renamed net_monitor to net_monitor.bak and restored the real > > > net_monitor and all is well. Anyone have this problem or know why it may > > > have occurred? > > > > > > Brian > > > > > > ---- > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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