[CentOS] Need some help (been hacked)...

Chris Mauritz wrote:
> That is absolutely the way to handle a hacked machine.  Unless you've
> got MD5 fingerprints of each file on the system (a la tripwire),
> there is no way of knowing where the naughty people may have stashed
> future surpises for the original poster.

And even then you need to have those fingerprints on RO media and verify
them off-line (relative to the machine's normal state) such as from a
bootable rescue CD.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us