OT: Yahoo Compromise Was: Re: mk

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 27 February 2013 02:14:47 Steve Flynn did opine:

> On 26 February 2013 18:54, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > setup.  So I am convinced my machine is clean.
> 
> the last thing I saw you chime in about was how PCI--DSS was a
> motherboard standard and we should all just stop blabbing on about
> "irrelevant" stuff and help the OP. When you say "I'm convinced my
> machine is clean" I'm inclined to disbelieve you. Trust no-one
> 
> As an addendum, I have 138 machines, none of which have flagged up any
> issues at all. All polling for separate email... in the case of 4 of
> them 2850 separate email addresses.
> 
> 
> Nada

FWIW, google must have found the problem.  I just re-enabled that stanza in 
my .fetchmailrc, and its busy pulling 367 messages that were piled up. That 
one the first query, the next one says 544 messages await.

Like I said, I didn't believe the problem was mine.  I have been involved 
with one rootkit install cleanup, back in the bind 6.0 days, but I've been 
running linux since early 1998, Starting with red hat 5.0 TBE.  We cleaned 
up that hacker and totally restored that machine with one reboot, which I 
did before he could clean up the logs.  It was our mail server at the time, 
running red hat 6.0.  So I do have just a small bit of rootkit cleanup 
experience.  And a pretty good idea what to look for.

Cheers, Gene
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