[2735] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Hacked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Mon Nov 3 01:37:17 1997
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 01:24:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: torch@cybat.sequel.net
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.971103132258.1113A-100000@bc.cybat.sequel.net>
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997 torch@cybat.sequel.net wrote:
> I'm using linux Slakware and my system has been hacked... THe
> hacker changed the root password...Now that I have a boot and root disck
> what's my next move for me to get back to my previous configiration
> without installing the Slakware cd rom again...
Backup your data (not programs), wipe the disk, install Red Hat or Debian,
and keep up with the updates. Securing slackware is a full time job, and
if you have to ask (especially in a place like this), you're not up to it.
What possesed you to post this to Linux-scsi?
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