[gentoo-user] Re: I've been hacked.

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 05/11/2010 10:28 PM, Grant wrote:
>>>>>> I nmap'ed one of my remote Gentoo servers today and besides the
>>>>>> expected open ports were these:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1080/tcp open  socks
>>>>>> 3128/tcp open  squid-http
>>>>>> 8080/tcp open  http-proxy
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not running any sort of proxy software that I know of and I should
>>>>>> be the only person whatsoever with access to the machine.  'netstat
>>>>>> -l' doesn't show any info on those ports at all so I suppose it's been
>>>>>> hacked as well?  I installed and ran 'rkhunter --check' (what happened
>>>>>> to the chrootkit ebuild?) but it doesn't seem to be much use since I
>>>>>> hadn't established a "file of stored file properties".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What do you guys think is going on?  What should I do from here?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What does lsof (I'd reinstall it afresh) show with regards to strange
>>>>> users?
>>>>> What users the above services run under.  If indeed they are not
>>>>> legitimate
>>>>> and you confirm that they are not being run as packages that you
>>>>> installed,
>>>>> then I'm afraid the only sane option is to reinstall.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Wow.  I'm actually seeing the same thing from other domains I nmap.
>>>> Could my ISP have some kind of a weird environment set up that makes
>>>> it look like there are ports such as these open on remote systems?
>>>> Right now I'm on some kind of a shared connection where everyone has
>>>> their own modem or router or whatever it is, but I think everyone's IP
>>>> is the same.
>>>>
>>>> - Grant
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> looks like, your ISP has a Transparent Proxy Setup running.
>
> Should I be worried about that?

"Your ISP" in this case means the ISP of your home, not the server's. 
That means you will see these ports apparently open for every 
IP/hostname you try.