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Mystery Malware Affecting Linux/Apache Web Servers
lisah writes "Reports are beginning to surface that some Web servers running Linux and Apache are unwittingly infecting thousands of computers, exploiting vulnerabilities in QuickTime, Yahoo! Messenger, and Windows. One way to tell if your machine is infected is if you're unable to create a directory name beginning with a numeral. Since details are still sketchy, the best advice right now is to take proactive steps to secure your servers. 'We asked the Apache Software Foundation if it had any advice on how to detect the rootkit or cleanse a server when it's found. According to Mark Cox of the Apache security team, "Whilst details are thin as to how the attackers gained root access to the compromised servers, we currently have no evidence that this is due to an unfixed vulnerability in the Apache HTTP Server." We sent a similar query to Red Hat, the largest vendor of Linux, but all its security team could tell us was that "At this point in time we have not had access to any affected machines and therefore cannot give guidance on which tools would reliably detect the rootkit."'"
This is why serious businesses choose a serious web server: Microsoft Internet Information Services running on Microsoft Windows Server.
Last night I discovered a directory named 53 4B 59 4E 45 54 in my home folder.
IIS are serious server. This are serious thread.
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Does this rootkit work on a hardened Gentoo install with no LKM support on SPARC64? :P
Maybe; they're still compiling it.
Yes, but you have to compile it.
Depends. How good is my lawyer?
The last time I wrote code, it was Morse
Your safe. NOTHING will run on that system. ;-)
Flexible bare-metal recovery for Linux/UNIX
Yeah. People should be held liable when they know full well that Microsoft has a track record for bad security, but choose Microsoft products anyway.
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"but his point is that unless you are running Windows OR have an Apache webserver this doesn't effect you."
Well I am sure the 3% of the population that don't fit into either category are relieved as hell.
But why male models?
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
What's this nonsense? Ubuntu is Ubuntu. ...and that's kinda related to Mac, right? Just... more browner.
happy geek has run out of happy :-(
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I think their class restricts them to Lawful Evil; should they change alignment, they et disbarred. So, none, at a guess.
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He's on a little-endian system.
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