netwrk sniffers and localhost

[Chris Mohler]

On 10/1/07, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:

>     A few weeks ago I got caught sleeping. I figured the hardware
> firewall will keep all hackers away but I was very wrong. A guy bent on
> doing something minor established a ssh connection to my computer and
> then guessed my user name and password. It was very simple. I have since
> changed the password. He just went to my browser and there connected to
> web pages that take hours to come up. I think the guy, and know the web
> pages, are in Germany.
>
>     If he wants to try again it will not work.

The bot that hacked you may have installed a rootkit.  Here is a
pretty comprehensive guide to installing rkhunter on f7:
http://optics.csufresno.edu/~kriehn/fedora/fedora_files/f7/howto/rkhunter.html

I have not installed rkhunter on F7 - I can't vouch for the accuracy
of the guide.

Chris