On Friday 31 March 2006 15:19, Craig White wrote: >On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 13:39 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 13:20, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > >They use these botnets to distribute spam, launch DDOS, or >> > > whatever else their imagination came come up with. Either of >> > > those would contribute to an increase in bandwidth usage. >> > >> > Humm, we were in fact subjected to a DDOS attack early last sunday >> > morning, which lead to the traffic servers demise & rebuild. >> > Got us listed at spamcop & our mail died. >> >> Or more likely, your box was participating in a DDOS. Do >> you have any idea what exploit might have been used to >> install the programs you found? > >---- >My money is on sshd - somebody with a weak password. > We found a couple that were downright stupid/dumb/assinine/all_of_the_above. Fixed, with a cluex4 upside the head to the parties involved. >Craig -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
