On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 01:14:27PM -0600, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:58:48AM -0600, Ursula A. Kallio wrote: > > Now you have me curious. Any reason why you would "PULL THE NETWORK AND > > THE POWER PLUGS!"? Please explain what you are reacting to. > > Because he has been cracked. Pulling the network stops the crackers from > communicating with the probes. Pulling the plug and then mounting the > harddrive in a different computer to get information about the breach. ROFL! I think the question is, "How do you know he has been cracked?", based on what he said? Admittely, those are suspicious-looking process names; do you recognize them? Google has no hits. > And then reformat everything and do a clean reinstall/restore from backups. Of course, if there's reasonable suspicion. -- johntrammell at yahoo.com | 78BA 706C C5F9 9321 E7C4 933B D063 907B A88E 924B Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 240 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011116/1cf6a207/attachment.pgp