Detecting root kits?

Michael O'Donnell mod+gnhlug at std.com
Mon Jun 23 11:20:03 EDT 2003


>I'm pulling over the chkrootkit package. Sounds like
>exactly what I'm looking for!

For reasons already mentioned by Derek and others,
the results obtained from chkrootkit are only
trustworthy in the positive case.  A negative result
is inconclusive, since you're basically asking the
compromised system, "Hey!  Are you compromised?"



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