This is the relevant output after the third attack on skillz.303.org where the attacker RMd the system. Once again.. not much to go on. The only thing that stands out in each case is a connection from stat-51.shoes.org in each case. Before the attacks, during the attacks, and minutes after the machine was RMd. =-= Feb 12 9:50 range skillz.303.org - recursive RM started. Following directories affected: /home /usr/lib (/home/lstaley preserved because of chattr) =-= Who was on the machine when it happenened... 'discore' is the only unverified user at this point, and we are trying to get in touch with him. The rest were the actual users. If discore is not legit, that is the account used.. if he is, the system was backdoored. 9:50am up 17:05, 5 users, load average: 0.50, 0.26, 0.14 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT netmask ttyp1 xenos.dimensiona 4:57pm 0.00s 0.39s 0.03s w discore ttyp2 slc647.modem.xmi 8:59pm 12:36m 0.08s 0.08s -bash polymorf ttyp3 modem15.powersit 9:10pm 12:34m 4.02s 3.94s BitchX cavalier ttyp4 hyper.dimensiona 9:21am 1:02 0.86s 0.79s pine liz ttyp5 ppp-207-204-90-9 9:34am 4:48 2.82s 2.76s BitchX =-= The only netstat connections that can't be explained. 'shoes' was in all four 'netstat' outputs at all phases of the attack. bash# netstat -a tcp 0 0 skillz.303.org:8334 stat-51.shoes.org:12052 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 skillz.303.org:8311 www.airmail.net:6661 ESTABLISHED