On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 08:49 -0500, Fedora User wrote: > There has been a lot of traffic on a machine lately. > Someone noticed a .mech/.stealth directory in /var/tmp/... > which looks kind of like a virus. It does suspicious > things. There is a file called cyc.pid which contains > a process id. When I did a ps on the ID I found only > "ps" was running. However, in that same directory I noticed > an executable called "ps". The ps on ps showed it had been > running for the last 4 or 5 days, and a regular linux ps runs > no more than a few seconds. There is also an executable there > called "pico" and several server files all pointing to undernet.org. > > Has anyone else run into this? Is it a virus? Is like an > IRC bot. What can be done? I Googled cyc.pid and found: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=423617 It doesn't sound good. But you should do more research than I did. The other doesn't like nice, either: http://www.google.com.au/search?q=%2Fvar%2Ftmp%2F+mech+stealth Once you've worked out what to do about them (*try* and repair, and possibly miss something, or wipe out and start again), look into making your web server more secure *BEFORE* you make it accessible. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
