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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>>making sure
to patch any holes through which the hacker might have come </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In my case, I had been getting regular attacks
through SSH for months, probably 100 a day (bots). Apparently after nine
months of this, someone stumbled on to my password which regrettably was
composed of two dictionary words with no special characters, making it
susceptible to dictionary search.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When I re-installed, I put SSH on a non-standard
port and haven't had a single attempt to attack the system since.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wilton</FONT></DIV>
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