Re: tlug: Now, ain't this really odd??!

[Karl-Max Wagner <karlmax@example.com>]

>         I went IRCing for a time that night and, after login-out, I
> looked at my /var/log/secure and found out that somebody was trying to
> telnet my machine...I did the same to his machine, than the odd thing

NO GOOD !

> happened: I got telneting, yada-yada-yada, but after some text and a
> screen (like those old BBS), my kernel started showing lots of error
> messages, then rebooted (I was as root out of the X); thought that it
> could be a problem on my kernel, after booting I tried telneting again
> to the same host (this time as an unprivileged user, still out of X) and
> I got the same errors, but this time no reboot at the end, just a halted
> system!

That stinks. Probably your machine has already been cracked and
some stinking stuff already installed. Maybe a new install is a
good idea ? Do you regularly check your machine with tripwire
using diskette boot ? That is actually the ONLY way to find out
whether something has been modified behind your back....

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