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Old 08-14-2004, 06:45 PM   #1
cxel91a
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High-jacked my Server. SPAM BOT


My linux box was high-jacked on Friday 13th, as a spam bot.
I ran chrootkit and it shows a process hidden from the ps cmd.
Luckily, I had spamassassin installed and it stopped the messages. I had over 10,000 messages in my spam folder. The only way to stop sending spam, is to uninstall sendmail.

Anyone else have the same problem? Is there a way to find out which program has been compromised?
 
Old 08-15-2004, 12:10 AM   #2
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did you read thru unspawns Security references thread???

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=45261

read post #3 and #5
 
Old 08-15-2004, 05:31 PM   #3
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Re: High-jacked my Server. SPAM BOT

Quote:
Originally posted by cxel91a
The only way to stop sending spam, is to uninstall sendmail.
No it's not, just empty your queue.
 
  


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