[vox-tech] Possible rootkit

[Peter Salzman]

Nice catch, Rod!

Boy, though... what an unfortunately named process!




On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Rod Roark <rod at sunsetsystems.com> wrote:
> rtkit-daemon is a normal process:
>
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/rtkit
>
> Rod
>
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 06:52:01 -0400
> Ken Bloom <kbloom at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Do a clean reinstall. In your new installation, change your passwords and
>> make sure you have the latest security updates.
>> On Sep 23, 2013 1:49 AM, "Richard Harke" <paleopenguin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I may have screwed up. I opened a GIF that I received in an email using
>> > ImageMagick. The image didn't have a close button so I used ps -A to find
>> > the
>> > task. I didn't find any called ImageMagick but there was one named
>> > display.im6
>> > and when I killed it, the icon on the task bar went away. But I also found
>> > a task
>> > called rtkit-daemon which I killed. But now I also find a whole new
>> > directory
>> > named /run which seems to have a lot of executables in it. All time stamped
>> > about the time this happened. Whoops, I forgot 24 hour clock. The time
>> > stamps
>> > are this morning so maybe it doesn't have to do with the GIF. In any case
>> > I assume everything in /run is trojaned.
>> >
>> > I am open for advice.
>> >
>> > Richard
>> >
>> >
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