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How do I remove a rootkit without an anti-rootkit program? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: My server's been hacked EMERGENCY Windows 2000 Server. I believe I have a rootkit. But, nothing will remove it. I've tried everything. Even tools that are merely ...
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Possible rooted debian (wheezy) server?

The first symptom was that I couldn't connect on port 6667, thus falling of irc-servers (and was unable to connect to them again). After some tcpdumping etc. I couldn't figure out what caused this, ...
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running a high CPU consuming process, but top/htop show ALL process cpu 0%?

all. I have these weird servers can not explained as follow: htop 1 [||||||||||||||| 28.5%] Tasks: 53 total, 1 running 2 [|||||||||||||||| ...
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Scripted install of Debian backdoor/rootkit [closed]

We have a number of servers (100+) that we need to increase a certain type of security on. (sortof internal, sorry NDA). We have thought about using a rootkit of some sort that would be able to keep ...
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What is “ndptsp.tsp”?

Sophos Anti-Rootkit tells me that on one of our web servers, there is an "unknown hidden file" ndptsp.tsp: Area: Local hard drives Description: Unknown hidden file Location: ...
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Rootkit security and learning? [closed]

Long time ago, my server was brute forced and a root kit was installed on. Since then, I have bunch of root kit checkers and Im always changing my password. However, without fully understanding how ...
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Putting a whole linux server under source control (git)

I am thinking about putting my whole linux server under version control using git. The reason behind it being that that might be the easiest way to detect malicious modifications/rootkits. All I would ...
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My computer is sending ICMP packets to arbitrary destinations

My computer is sending ICMP packets to arbitrary destinations. I can't understand the reason. Dump of one of the packet is : Internet Control Message Protocol Type: 3 (Destination unreachable) ...
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Pull network or power? (for contianing a rooted server)

When a server gets rooted (e.g. a situation like this), one of the first things that you may decide to do is containment. Some security specialists advise not to enter remediation immediately and to ...
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Weird set of shell commands in root's .bash_history

I have probably just detected that a user on a server of mine has rooted my server, but that's not what I'm asking. Has anyone ever seen command like these: echo _EoT_0.249348813417008_; id; echo ...
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How to detect a hidden process in linux? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: How to detect a hidden process in linux? We have a box we suspect has been rooted at work. The question is how do we find it? I am no system administrator, but I was ...
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Pain removing a perl rootkit

So, we host a geoservice webserver thing at the office. Someone apparently broke into this box (probably via ftp or ssh), and put some kind of irc-managed rootkit thing. Now I'm trying to clean the ...
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HOw to view all Logs in OSSSEC system ubuntu

I have installed OSSEC It is working and sometime sending me alert email as well. But i want to see what can i type so that i can get view all the logs of what OSSEC has found in my system
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rootkit exploit on centos server

I have recenrly found a file in my folder called wunderbar_emporium its details is here What is that , how it came here and what should i check to make sure what arong has been done to system
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ifconfig showing wrong RX/TX byte count

ifconfig tells for eth0 some RX = 2,8GB, TX = 1,3GB value that cannot be real, since I recently transmitted many 10GB+ files over eth0. I would like to know if that's just some ordinary integer ...
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How to check if a Linux server is clean from rootkits/backdoors/botnets etc.?

In case a Linux server was exposed to the internet with extreme low security policy (r/w anonymous Samba folders, Firebird database server with default admin password, no firewall, etc.) for a week, ...
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RtKit on my ubuntu?

Hi I just updated my ubuntu karmic Koala to Lucid Lynx and found sth strange on my file /etc/passwd. rtkit:x:120:130:RealtimeKit,,,:/proc:/bin/false Can someone tell me what it is?
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Check integrity of Debian system after possible rootkit?

I have a system that was possibly rootkited (the IRC bot was installed and +ai attributes were set on /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /bin, /sbin). The IRC bots were deleted and system was upgraded to 5.0.4 from ...
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How to prevent wunderbar_emporium rootkit

I just learned about the wunderbar_emporium rootkit, and it sounds pretty nasty. I tested it on a few linux servers I have access to, and while it failed on two of them, it was successful on one with ...
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Identifying changed files on *nix webserver

Looking for some (*nix) software which will build an index of "interesting" files on a server and notify when certain of those files contents are modified, or new files appear. Similar to rkhunter et ...
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how to find out what created a file?

I have some virus files being randomly created on root of a c: disk of one of my servers. How can I find out what created it? Some 3rd party software maybe?
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A list of Windows rootkit detection and removal tools

A list of rootkit detection and/or removal tools from publicly trusted sources: Name, Vendor, Latest release RootkitRevealer, Sysinternals, November 1 2006 Rootkit Unhooker, ep_x0ff ...
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Anti-Rootkit programs

What program do you use for detecting Rootkits? How do you know what to trust?