Re: milw0rm rootkit

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Mar 14 2011 - 15:08:19 EST


On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 07:31:43PM -0700, Justin wrote:
> My mothers computer was hacked with a program that seems to be

Your mom runs Linux? Which distro?

> milw0rm. The hacker left the source file in C on her computer. I have
> it and the IP address of the FTP server that he seemed to download it
> from. Who can I give the file to to be sure that it gets patched? And
> is there anything else I should do to help you guys make sure that
> this doesnt happen again?

This is the Linux kernel mailing list, which I'm pretty sure was not the
cause of the hack, and thus the wrong list. Please contact the people
from the distribution that you are using.

-- Steve


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> I am not on the list, so please CC me any responses, thanks
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