title: Can I safely kill a ton of my /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start PIDs?
body: <p>Is it "safe" to mass-kill every PID on my websites-serving dedi (debian squeeze) matching this (I know this is Apache's) ?
  www-data /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start</p>
  
  <p>I'll spare you the details, but these PIDs are the ultimate non-removed remnants of an intrusion, there are still maaaaany more than needed that are running and my dedi's got far too many "ESTABLISHED" connexions, local ipconntrack, TCP opening connexions and reset connexions per second as seen in netstat, "established : connections through firewall", several indicators I see in Munin are still way off the chart.</p>
  
  <p>I'd be tempted to mass-close them all, but I don't know if 
  - that can "break" something important that won't restart by itself, or if 
  - that will only mean that the the browsers on computers elsewhere across the internet will suddenly stop receiving data and will have require hitting F5</p>
  
  <p>Thanks if you can tell me ! :)</p>