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All: I'm posting this to FreeBSD-security (rather than FreeBSD-net) because the problems I'm seeing appear to have been caused by spyware, and because they constitute a possible avenue for denial of service on FreeBSD machines with default installs of the operating system. Several of the FreeBSD machines on our network began to act strangely during the past week. Some have started to

In my /var/log/messages file, in recent days I have been receiving numerous messages such as: Jun 23 15:02:50 OUR-HOST named[577]: sysquery: nslookup reports danger (dns.SUBNET1.OTHER.DOMAIN.AAA.BBB.CCC.in-addr.arpa) Jun 23 15:02:51 OUR-HOST named[577]: sysquery: nslookup reports danger (HOST2.SUBNET2.OTHER.DOMAIN.AAA.BBB.CCC.in-addr.arpa) Jun 23 15:02:51 OUR-HOST named[577]: sysquery:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm running stock FreeBSD with services running: samba (connections allowed only from local network), lpd (same), bind (all interfaces), apache (all), zope (local) This machine is home gateway/http/printserver. Recently some strange things happened as my printer all of sudden started to print stuff when nobody prints... luckily (or

Hello all, I have a few strange errors in my messages log I can't fix. My system works great, it just bugs me that I have error (or apparent errors) that I don't know about. I get automount errors regurlarly (daily) that are reflected in the last four lines of the log file excerpt below. My misc and net directories are there, but I can't write to them either. The properties say that