F7 now super slow, will it infect Fedora 8?

Doug Purdy 1der at rogers.com
Thu Feb 7 05:09:16 UTC 2008


Le mer 06/02/2008 à 13:00, Ric Moore a écrit :
> On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:16 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
> 
> > Try "top" first and see if that shows it.  If you got rootkitted, then
> > it may not show the guilty process.  Go fetch a copy of ckrootkit and
> > run it:
> > 
> > 	http://www.chkrootkit.org/
> > 
> 
> I did that and got this:
> Searching for anomalies in shell history files... Warning: `' is linked
> to another file
> 
> Wazzat? Ric

I haven't had a chance to run chkrootkit yet. Sorry don't have an
answer. With help from this list I found the program apparently causing
my problems. The problems start and stop as that program is started and
stopped on each machine. A comparison with "cmp" shows the offending
programs are identical to the one on the installation CD. I've notified
the manufacturer and sent them a copy of the program.

I'm not very knowledgeable about computers, even if I use them a lot.
Hopefully someone else will answer before you have to rely on me. :-)

But "linked" sounds like a symbolic (soft) or hard link created with the
"ln" command. The soft link means the file is really in another
directory, and if a hard link, under another name.

You can see symbolic links with "ls -F" as @ is appended to the
filename. You can see where a symbolic link points with "readlink
linkname".

Doug




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