Messages in this thread |  | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5 | Date | Mon, 20 Nov 2000 01:49:52 +1100 |
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On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 07:16:52 -0800 (PST), David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com> wrote: >there is a rootkit kernel module out there that, if loaded onto your >system, can make it almost impossible to detect that your system has been >compramised. with module support disabled this isn't possible.
Wrong. There are ways of attacking the kernel even if you have module support disabled in the kernel. Disabling modules only makes it a little harder, do not think for one minute that because you have disabled modules that you are safe against these root kits, you are not.
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