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SubjectRe: [OT] Rootkit queston
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Markus Hästbacka wrote:

> I've been paranoid after I heard that the debian project got
> "rootkitted", I ran chkrootkit, and it said that it's possible that I
> have a LKM rootkit installed, but the website told me that it's possible
> that the LKM test gives wrong information with recent kernels (Running
> 2.4.22 now).

chkrootkit's lkm test is fooled by kernel threads... and if your system is
under heavy fork/exit load it'll result in some false lkm positives as
well. it shouldn't be hard to fix the first problem (in chkrootkit), but
the second has no real solution.

-dean
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