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  A hacker utility, back door, or Trojan Horse is installed on a system, e.g. NetBus, Back Orifice, Rootkit, etc.
  The Perl fingerd program allows arbitrary command execution from remote users.
  A version of finger is running that exposes valid user information to any entity on the network.
  cfingerd lists all users on a system via search.**@target.
  The DG/UX finger daemon allows remote command execution through shell metacharacters.
  account enumeration attempt
  version query
  finger allows recursive searches by using a long string of @ symbols.
  Finger redirection allows finger bombs.
  finger 0@host on some systems may print information on some user accounts.
  finger .@host on some systems may print information on some user accounts.


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