First time poster, so please accept my apologies if this isn't in the right place.

Right. With that said...

My linux box has RedHat 7.0 on it. Recently, things have started malfunctioning. Telnet crashes. CVS doesn't run. The compiler dies.

We've uncovered that these programs are searching for /lib/libshow.so.0.9.5, which doesn't exist on our box. I have RedHat 7.2 installed at home. I don't have the file either.

I've searched all over the web, including at RedHat's site, and can't fine any trace of this library, any mention of anyone else ever having this problem... so I turn to you all, in the hopes that someone has some idea. All of us working on it are stumped, and we can't even compile things (like the newest version of CVS), nor can the MUD on our box compile new code... the makefile script bombs too.

If anyone has any clue, or even any hints on how we go about finding out what's wrong/fixing the problem, we are at wits end. Thanks.

I'd suggest to look for it in rpmfind

nevermind it's not there, sorry I have no clue whatsoever.

Sounds like a weird problem. Don't know if this would help any. But I would try doing something like:

/sbin/ldconfig

You have been hacked.
I bet that if you do a
ls -l /etc/ld.so.preload
it will tell you that there no such file

Look at
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/75/249597

I got hacked myself with mandrake 7.0

Good luck
Look here

here's some info on root kits. http://www.chkrootkit.org/