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Traffic spikes and perl processes - security issue?
| Posted by laur, 10-28-2009, 12:01 PM |
| I admit I know nothing when it comes to servers. Yet I do have a root server and I noticed that there are some days when the traffic spikes up to 20 times the average and when I login via ssh I see many perl processes. I don't know what those are since I don't use any perl scripts on my web site. Is this a potential or maybe an ongoing security issue?
Thanks for any advice.
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| Posted by pmabraham, 10-28-2009, 12:17 PM |
| Greetings:
It looks like you've been hacked.
Please consider working with your data center / hosting provider technical support team on clean up.
Thank you.
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| Posted by laur, 10-28-2009, 12:29 PM |
| Thanks. I have someone checking the server.
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