Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-08 Thread P Kirk
On 0, Allen Wayne Best <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wednesday 08 August 2001 01:53, P Kirk pronounced: >> > >> >No offense intended, but this is some of the WORST advice I've heard on >> >this list to date. >> > >> >If you fear you may have been compromised, by all means, and for the >> >love of

Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-08 Thread Allen Wayne Best
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 01:53, P Kirk pronounced: > > > >No offense intended, but this is some of the WORST advice I've heard on > >this list to date. > > > >If you fear you may have been compromised, by all means, and for the > >love of us all, unplug your network cable at once. If for no othe

Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-08 Thread P Kirk
> >No offense intended, but this is some of the WORST advice I've heard on >this list to date. > >If you fear you may have been compromised, by all means, and for the >love of us all, unplug your network cable at once. If for no other >reason than this: Your system could possibly be launching attac

Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread Vineet Kumar
* P Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010807 12:32]: > Saw something similiar in a FreeBSD box once. It was a trojan ftp > daemon that started off some obscure user like sysgetty or some other > "official" looking name. The RAID had 36 gigs of mp3s and porn. > > You might want to backup your data and re

Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 07-Aug 08:29, P Kirk wrote: [snip] > killa.bat says killall ftpd and call killb.bat and killb does the same > in reverse. > > I know someone must have a neat shell script that does this? > -- > [a bash script] $while true; do killall ftpd; sleep 1; done; Thomas pgpS5WslsxtQU.pgp Descriptio

Re: Fwd: Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread John Galt
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, William Leese wrote: >On Tuesday 07 August 2001 18:59, Dave Sherohman wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 06:53:38PM +0200, William Leese wrote: >> > there's more though. but again i'm not sure.. for the first time i've >> > seen a few odd requests being logged in boa, just a sma

Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread P Kirk
>Uh... Why? Wouldn't it be simpler to just shut down the ftp service >(either /etc/init.d/ftpd stop or comment it out in inetd.conf and then >/etc/init.d/inetd restart), work on it, and restart the service? Because being a trojan it respawns every time you stop it. Otherwise it would be a rathe

Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:29:39PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > In the meantime there's no need to disconnect from the net. Just have a > rolling kill command that kills ftpd every second. Uh... Why? Wouldn't it be simpler to just shut down the ftp service (either /etc/init.d/ftpd stop or comment it

Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread P Kirk
...and only one script needed :-) -- Patrick "No sig in my .sig" Kirk GSM: +44 7876 560 646 ICQ: 42219699

Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:29:39PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > Saw something similiar in a FreeBSD box once. It was a trojan ftp > daemon that started off some obscure user like sysgetty or some other > "official" looking name. The RAID had 36 gigs of mp3s and porn. > > You might want to backup your

Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread P Kirk
Saw something similiar in a FreeBSD box once. It was a trojan ftp daemon that started off some obscure user like sysgetty or some other "official" looking name. The RAID had 36 gigs of mp3s and porn. You might want to backup your data and reinstall if no-one has a more knowledgable answer. In t

Re: Fwd: Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread William Leese
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 18:59, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 06:53:38PM +0200, William Leese wrote: > > there's more though. but again i'm not sure.. for the first time i've > > seen a few odd requests being logged in boa, just a small snippet: > > > > > > [07/Aug/2001:06:26:03

Re: Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread Hall Stevenson
> [07/Aug/2001:06:26:03 +] request from > 195.38.105.70 "GET /default.ida? That's from the "Code Red", or some variant of it, worm... Hall

Re: Fwd: Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 06:53:38PM +0200, William Leese wrote: > there's more though. but again i'm not sure.. for the first time i've seen a > few odd requests being logged in boa, just a small snippet: > > > [07/Aug/2001:06:26:03 +] request from 195.38.105.70 "GET > /default.ida?XXX

Fwd: Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread William Leese
-- Forwarded Message -- there's more though. but again i'm not sure.. for the first time i've seen a few odd requests being logged in boa, just a small snippet: [07/Aug/2001:06:26:03 +] request from 195.38.105.70 "GET /default.ida?X