Yeah, I couldn't rule that out.  I'm behind a firewall, but there were simply 
a lot of oddities in the way my system was operating.  I could have taken a 
month to track them all down, repair everything and learn a whole lot in the 
process, or I could start with a relatively clean slate. I'm busy so I chose 
the latter.

Brian


On Friday 07 March 2003 06:22 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
> 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
> > > >
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> > > >
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