[ale] server question

[Joseph A. Knapka]

Sage wrote:
> 
> > This is bizarre.  I'd place my bets on a getting-continually-worse faulty
> > memory chip or motherboard or other primary hardware device.
> >
> Or perhaps the system has been comprimised and a trojan is eating up all
> the resources?
> 
> If a trojan is the case, it's not showing up with 'top' or 'ps aux'. We've wondered that too.

If it's a trojan (sounds unlikely given other messages on this thread),
then it might not show up in ps or top. Once you've got root access,
it's
comparitively simple to install kernel hacks that make selected
processes
invisible (or files, or users, or...).

<URL: http://packetstorm.securify.com/groups/thc/LKM_HACKING.html>

is a real eye-opener on these issues.

-- Joe
 

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