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this don't look good



discuss-bounces at blu.org wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 07:45:56AM -0500, Stephen Adler wrote:
>> guess what..... I've just issued a last -a on my PC and look what
>> came up... a bunch of people have broken into my root account. Any
>> suggestions as to how I should proceed?
>

> In case you didn't get the message yet, you need to reformat and
> reinstall if you want any hope of using the box with any confidence of
> security or protection again.

Save your logs, though - send them to AOL and UPenn; their security folks
may be very interested to see what their users are doing.  I wouldn't bother
with Rima-TDE.
 -Don




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