Hard to Detect Exploit in the Wild

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I posted this on a couple forums I frequent and thought I would also post it here. While I run Windows servers I keep up with all web server security. As an admin I couldn’t afford not too.

I am sure most of you by now know there is a LKM (Loadable Kernel Module) exploit that is nasty and hard as heck to clean.

Read this thread at Webhosting Talk. Make sure you read it through as there is a users there that has investigated several boxes.

The original story first broke a week or so ago at TheRegister and then again a couple days ago at TheChannelRegister.

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Moving Your Site to a New Server

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From time to time someone at The Admin Zone will ask how to easily move a site from one server to another. While this article will explain how to do this if your site is hosted on a Windows server it can easily be applied when moving from Windows to Linux, Linux to Windows or Linux to Linux. Moving your site to a new server is not all that hard. With this article I will attempt to make a move easy for you.

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How to Assemble a PC for Use as a Home Server

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This is an adaptation of How to Assemble a PC written by Gavino at Free PC Help Forum. It is always a good idea to have a server at home to test out new versions of software or hacks to the software that you use to run your community. By testing on a dev server you don’t sacrifice your live site. Once you have tested everything and are satisfied there will be no problems when you upgrade you can easily transfer the files from the home server to the live server. You don’t need top of the line hardware for your test server. In fact you can use an old PC instead of building a new one. Of course if you choose to use an old PC you have lying around you’ll want to make sure you use the newest versions of server software and tools.

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