I've been hacked; what to do next?
It looks like they are very busy
This could be just a Mambo PHP hack (not so bad), or a full rookit (very bad). Suspecting a root kit, I installed chkrootkit & it shows:
Checking `lkm'… You have 57 process hidden for ps command
chkproc: Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed
This does not sound good. I dont know if this is a false positive because of UML or a real rootkit. I have standard Redhat 9 running for 3 years, all passwords are mine an alpha-numeric, firehol is used as the firewall. I'm currently backing up everything using rsync.
So where do I go from here? I have no idea how this was done, they didn't seem to vandalise anything just show their presence. I suppose I will have to start again with a new distro and rebuild from scratch.
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I've never seen a UML-caused chkrootkit false positive.