On 04/08/2010 04:21 PM, madmac wrote:
Well anyone that can guess my passwords must be amazing.
Let alone get through the elaborate firewall system.
ssh port is " non standard "
But I agree, this box is compromised " some how "
File count now at 9580 and counting
Are all of the files that are "infected" from mailboxes?
It does sound like your machine has been compromised. If you leave
Squirrelmail open (ie: no protection against password attacks) or have
other webapps running then this is the most likely place for them to get
in. Once they have an account's login credentials, they can upload
things to themselves and run them (don't ask me how - I never looked at
how they did it - I just fixed it) and then brute force passwords from
the local machine to obtain other access or whatever they are looking to do.
I had one a year or so back where a guy installed phpbb - when he came
in the next day someone had emailed him his root password. He
reinstalled and put phpbb back on and had his machine compromised in
about 2 hours after that.
