Need some help with a hacker exorcism....

[Michael ODonnell]

I wrote:
>>> CHECKING: "lkm"
>>> You have    17 process hidden for readdir command
>>> You have    17 process hidden for ps command
>>>                - WARNING!! INFECTED!! Possible LKM Trojan installed
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>>What produced this output?
>
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>Those look like msgs generated by chkrootkit.  FWIW:
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>chkrootkit does unfortunately generate false positives


I should mention that I was responding to the response
rather than to the original message, and just talking
about chkrootkit in general.  However, after re-reading
the original message, I would say that the owner of
the machine in question should definitely be alarmed
and be taking appropriate measures.