On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 18:57, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > a) You should NOT, under any circumstances, be backing it up to your home > systems. You should be backing it up to a work server - there are very > serious legal implications involved here. > Thanks, but there are no customer data or other sensitive data on the server. I wouldn't dream of compromising customer data! > b) Since it's in a datacenter, presumably being hosted, you need to > contact the datacenter provider and inform them that you believe it may be > infected, and work with them to investigate - they may have an intrusion > response team far more qualified than you to investigate whether there's > been an intrusion. On the other hand, you've also got to worry about your > company's proprietary data, and what they should see, and what they should > not. > That is a good idea. There do exist professionals for this type of work, and that is the place to find them. Thanks. > As I said, a *lot* of legal issues - don't put yourself into a position > that could get you, personally, out of a job, sued, or even, as an > extreme, jailed. > Thank you for the concern. I will be cautious and not reckless! My own security is not worth that server! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com