System hanging at boot
Charlie Farinella
cfarinella at appropriatesolutions.com
Fri May 30 18:06:59 EDT 2003
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 17:46, bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
> > At the login prompt I would type a username, hit enter, and the username
> > would disappear. Over and over. I could not login, so I hit reset.
> > Oops!
>
> Weird. Hmmmm. I wonder if maybe the system's been hacked. It may be
> that an attacker tried to replace the kernel with a trojan'ed copy, but
> screwed something up.
How might I tell, and what can I do about it?
As to how long I let the 'Freeing unused memory' sit there, at least 20
minutes. It's hung.
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Charlie Farinella, Appropriate Solutions, Inc.
cfarinella at AppropriateSolutions.com
603-924-6079
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