On 8/23/05, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apparently, _H. S._, on 22/08/05 18:39,typed: > > Hi, > > > > Due to the various sshd dictionary (apparent) attacks I have been > > observing in my syslog, I tried a little seach on what script or worm or > > bot is doing this and discovered this site: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~krispykringle/sshnotes.txt > > > > When I click on sshf on this url: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~krispykringle/ssh_kits/ssh/ , mozilla seems to > > hang. I waited for a few seconds and then killed mozilla and used wget > > to download the ssf file. > > > > The file seems to be: > > $> file sshf > > sshf: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for > > GNU/Linux 2.0.0, statically linked, not stripped > > > > > > Just being paranoid, but why would mozilla hang on when I click on sshf > > link on the above URL? Or is it just waiting to do something? The CPU > > load monitor shows high load. Hopefully I haven't shot myself in the boot :) > > > > ->HS > > > > Apologies for the incomplete info and for hasty email: > 1. Given a few more seconds, the binary is actually loaded in the > Mozilla window. It is not actually running --- so I was just being paranoid. > > 2. Running Mozilla 1.7.8-1sarge1 on Testing, 2.6.11 kernel. > > ->HS
Try wgetting the file again and see what kind of Content-Type the server sends. It probably doesn't know the filetype so sends something standard like text/html which causes the browser to think it can open the file. greets, Wim
