Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 11:46:42 +0800 From: Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong <nchee_hoong@pacific.net.sg> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Infected by virus Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011107113614.00a4cb50@po.pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <20011106192302.A35555@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011107111835.00a4a6e0@po.pacific.net.sg> <5.1.0.14.0.20011107092016.00a46320@po.pacific.net.sg> <5.1.0.14.0.20011107092016.00a46320@po.pacific.net.sg> <20011106190912.A35365@xor.obsecurity.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20011107111835.00a4a6e0@po.pacific.net.sg>
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HI Kris ;
Thank you very much for your valuable advise . By the way , where can
I get a procedure of precaution or security during installation of
application software or UNIX ?
In order to stop repeating make a same mistake , I have to read the
security procedure before proceed installing software .
At 07:23 PM 11/6/01 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 11:22:09AM +0800, Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong wrote:
> > Well ;
> > This sound bad news to me . :-(
> > I have installed a lot of application software the system . It consumed me
> > a lot of time to get these services up.
> > I am going to cry if you ask me to wipe the disk and re-install .
> >
> > :-(
>
>If you're very careful to only restore data (not binaries) which you
>have verified to be unaffected, you can safely do so, but there could
>be backdoors hidden in any of the binaries on the system, or in
>configuraton files, etc. Of course, what you do with your system is
>up to you, but if you don't clean your system thoroughly then you
>might have ongoing problems if your attackers have left a way to get
>back in.
>
>Kris
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