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Perl is the most common language used to hack your server, next to PHP. To find the process running perl, you could try:

# ps -Af | grep perl

if that doesnt show any thing running try:

# ps -Al | grep perl

If you find anything suspicious, such as INETD running with a unusually high PID (especially when your server uses XINETD), please follow the instructions in the Knowledge base article on "how to kill a suspicious process".


**Use these commands at your own risk. Each Linux distribution is different and may require different commands. Please consult the documentation for your distribution of Linux**

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