On 9/19/07, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Last night my host sent out a message that their database had been
> > > compromised.  I contacted them this morning and it turns out that all
> > > of their trouble tickets were exposed.  I checked my records and
> > > (stupidly) I had included my root password in an email to them about a
> > > year ago.  I (stupidly) hadn't changed the password since.  I've
> > > changed it now and rebooted the system, but what do you think?  Do I
> > > need to start this thing over?
> > >
> > > - Grant
> >
> > I think you should take a look at the programs that
> > are running, and netstat -l, and see if anything is fishy.
>
> I recognize everything in 'ps -ef' I think, but I've never really used
> netstat before.  Under "Active Internet connections" I don't
> recognize:
>
> tcp localhost:10030
> tcp *:snpp
>
> I don't recognize most of the paths under UNIX domain sockets.
> Anything particular I should look for?

Try using the -p option to netstat to get the PID of those two
connections, see if its anything suspicious


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