On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:09:31 -0700 "Alan M. Evans" <fedoralist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 17:02 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > > I was hacked last month and had a simple password for my name > > which is internal and only seen here in my room or, I forgot, a > > person using ssh. This German hacker just turned on my firefox web > > browser several times to a German web page that never fully loads > > up. I was happy because he could have done something worse. > > > > Well he did. While using the web browser it would sudden change > > to a full screen colored thing and my mouse and keyboard stopped > > working. Today I went to the source of my Firefox and it is at > > /home/karl/work/firefox/. There are about 30 files there and I > > studied them and there were two that looked odd. I did ls -al and > > found they were made the same day I was hacked! Then looked and > > they were exicutables and I deleted both. This seems to have > > stopped this problem. > > > > Time will tell but it is just like the German's to do this kind > > of thing. It hurts and they don't give a crap. > > I almost hate to say it: "SELinux". > *nod* along with other tools to install, chkrootkit, scan yer PC's, etc. If you really want to use ssh - consider keys instead of passwords - then again, you know all this Karl, I'm just preachin' to the choir :) -- Best regards, Chris Registerd Linux user number 448639
