root@rowla:~# ps auxw | grep katester | grep perl katester 23802 94.4 0.1 3184 2520 ?? R Wed01PM 1582:07.71 perl udp.pl irc.world-crew.net 6667 1200 (perl5.8.8) root@rowla:~# kill 23802 http://www.whoopis.com/howtos/phpbb-viewtopic-hack/udp.txt root@rowla:~katester# ps -U katester PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 17603 ?? Z 0:00.01 17605 ?? S 0:03.76 ./bash 23800 ?? Z 0:00.00 51838 ?? I 7:27.67 /usr/local/bin/php-cgi 51842 ?? I 7:17.46 /usr/local/bin/php-cgi 51843 ?? I 7:29.32 /usr/local/bin/php-cgi 51851 ?? I 7:19.06 /usr/local/bin/php-cgi 59959 ?? Is 0:00.93 /usr/local/bin/php-cgi 67261 ?? I 6:31.64 /usr/local/bin/php-cgi root@rowla:~katester# kill 51838 root@rowla:~katester# kill 51842 root@rowla:~katester# kill 51843 root@rowla:~katester# kill 51851 root@rowla:~katester# kill 59959 root@rowla:~katester# kill 67261 67261: No such process root@rowla:~katester# ps -U katester PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND root@rowla:~katester# (Looks to me like PHP had spawned bash, as bash went away while killing off the PHP processes.) 142.166.3.123 www.katester.net - [05/Sep/2007:13:37:02 -0400] "GET /blog/index.php/feed/ HTTP/1.1" 200 17637 "-" "radianrss-1.0"