[cobalt-security] I've been hacked -- now what do I do?

[Steve Beach <asb4@xxxxxxx>]

Dear All;

Stupid question time -- I've been hacked, so what do I do now?  With a
regular box, I'd re-install everything and be done with it.  But I can't
just reboot with a floppy in the disk drive if there isn't any disk
drive, so what do I do to reload a known clean system?

Thanks for your support,

Steve Beach

P.S.: I say I've been hacked because there is a program called "nothing"
that starts on boot, and appears to do nothing but run what looks to be
a trojaned "sleep".  I'm not sure it's trojaned, since I didn't install
tripwire or anything before I put it online.  Oh well, next time.


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