Re: [SLUG] joe-job or rootkit?

From: ronan (ronan@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2008 - 06:50:13 EDT


Eben King wrote:
> I just got 6-7 bounces from mail I didn't send. SoI've probably been
> the victim of either a joe-job or a rootkit. I've got the bounce
> messages. How do I tell the difference?
>
Leave a copy of tcpdump running in a terminal, watching outgoing
packets, for several hours, while you are not using your machine. Any
outbound traffic is suspicious (except for NTP or deliberately scheduled
network activity).

--ronan
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