Unsecure / hacked (?) server?

lifeform

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Hi,

Our server seems to be hacked now again - and I am looising confidence in this solution.

Suddenly MySQL-started to mess up - and won´t start at all now. Mail can´t be checked and all DirectAdmin password is not working.

The positive sides: FTP is working. VMWare Infrastructure Client can be accessed, but the seems to be running constantly at 30-40%. Earlier, a few days ago, everything was running smoothly at an average of 7-10%.

In an desperate attempt (it is a new server) I tried to rename the /home-folder just to check if this had impact on CPU usage, but it hadn´t. The server was still running at the same levels: 30-40% of the full bar in VMware.

I am no expert on this, but WHAT can be done, and how can we locate the hacker attack and secure our server properly ?

I´m getting very tired and fed up with it all now, and are close to giving it up completly. The solution now is to change to a new ISP, but maybe I don´t have to do this if this can be fixed and secured.

Server:*Xeon X3210,*Quad Core,*2.13GHz -*6144 MB of RAM, RedHat/CentOS.

Our passwords has been to secure ones, and I have absolutely and are getting no help from my ISP on this one.

Any ideas??
 
In SSH, run the 'top' command to see what's using up the resources. It may just be one of your users using up a lot more resource intensive scripts than usual or someone may be mass mailing or something else. You're going to have to investigate and find out.

Also, as for the MySQL problem. What error does it give?
 
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