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Is your computer affected by a rootkit?

Offline purvis

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« Last Edit: March 30, 2013, 09:16:26 PM by purvis »

Offline CharlieBrady

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Re: Is your computer affected by a rootkit?
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2013, 08:56:11 PM »
This is a FYI. Not a sky is falling warning.

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1235797
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/SSHD+rootkit+in+the+wild/15229

AFAICT, this is only an issue with cpanel administered systems, which means that there is no relevance to SME server.

http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/CompSystem

A reminder to all, if you have any security concerns at all, you should raise them via email with security at contribs dot org.

Offline purvis

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Re: Is your computer affected by a rootkit?
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2013, 02:22:30 AM »
thanks Charlie. Have a good day