Thank you for your reply. I would like to know if that is the exact command I should run. It did not produce any output. Also if you could explain to me what that command is actually accomplishing.
Also, I received a reply in LQ.org of another user running slackware 12.2. He offered the md5sum for tcpdump and it matches my md5 as well. As it stands at this point, I'm pretty sure that it is a false positive, but I'd still like to read your reply so that I may understand and learn a little more about what information you were looking for. Thanks so much Matt On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Peter M. Abraham < [email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings Matt: > > I don't know Slackware, but if it uses RPM's, then there might be a > check like > > rpm -Va 2>/dev/null | grep '^S.5' > > I'm not sure if it is a false positive or not as I've seen machines > "just" connected to the Internet start getting attacked in five > minutes or so; and http://www.dshield.org/ used to have an area (maybe > they still do) that shows the average time for a hacker to break into > a not purposely hardened and kept hardened box (typically in under 15 > minutes). > > Thank you. >
