Hacked while playing BZFlag?

ultramancool · 09-24-2004, 04:30 PM

Whoo that's a relif i have no data loss!
But last time My Suse linux 9.1 installation was booting.
Dunno why but I like 2 watch the booting (press F2 to see all the commands being run) and now know it pays off to watch it! i notice it mounted some remote file system! some weird site forget where. Don't wanna boot it again
currently using xp home to post this

Can anyone help?

Pcghost · 09-24-2004, 04:38 PM

Disconnect it from the Internet.

Then boot and look over your log files. That is a start. If you come across any strange connections in the logs it might give you a better place to work from to figure out what they did. Best bet if you know you have been 0wn3d is to backup your data and reinstall.

ultramancool · 09-24-2004, 04:41 PM

My machine crashed (sometimes does while playing BZflag on linux) i rebooted than noticed the strange startup entry
What do you mean by owned?
turned into a mass mailing zombie or something?
i have no data of value on my linux partition only my ntfs partitions which have all our photos!
Where are the log files?
sorry i'm a

ithawtewrong · 09-24-2004, 05:11 PM

Log files for SuSE are in /var/log
I believe the one you'll be looking for is boot.msg

ultramancool · 09-25-2004, 06:06 AM

Does owned mean my root password was changed from a six character dictionary word followed by 1 not exacttly the most secure thing you've heard of!
LOL