True..

But then again, even if that were so, at least that person is backdoor free 
now. ;-)

Given the lack of any major brand name apps in that system, I doubt it was a 
commercial machine. It was probably just a system some plebe set up to mess 
around in. After all, who would want Solaris if not to run a major app on? 
Solaris sucks. There aren't many apps that run on it either.

ian

"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message 
news:49bf3147$1@news.povray.org...
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:28:18 -0400, [GDS|Entropy] wrote:
>
>> Apparently the "person" (used very loosely) was running Solaris...I
>> first tried various easy RDP and MSMSGR exploits (before I found out
>> OS), but to no avail..so I attempted some assorted 'Nix exploits, and
>> got a hit with the port 23 telnet 'sploit....which is Solaris exclusive
>> AFAIK...
>
> Given that it was open to this hack, gotta make you wonder if someone
> else had owned the machine and was using it as a launching off point to
> cover their tracks and you toasted someone's machine who was innocent of
> trying to hack your systems....
>
> Jim
>

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