11 May
2000
11 May
'00
06:58
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Chrissy LeMaire wrote:
hey all, Ive got a friend that possibly has a hacked machine.. and has recently purchased 6.4. Does he have to format the drive and start from almost scratch or will just Updating the system take care of the problem?
to be real sure, that no backdoors are left active after the update he has to _install_ from scratch. Could he verify how these ppl get access to his machine? Bye, Thomas -- Thomas Biege, SuSE GmbH, Schanzaeckerstr. 10, 90443 Nuernberg E@mail: thomas@suse.de Function: Security Support & Auditing "lynx -source http://www.suse.de/~thomas/thomas.pgp | pgp -fka" Key fingerprint = 09 48 F2 FD 81 F7 E7 98 6D C7 36 F1 96 6A 12 47