Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 19 Nov 2000 07:11:15 -0800 (PST) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5 |
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On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, David Lang 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. > Yes, it is. Easily. If you've got root you can modify the kernel image and > reboot the bloody thing. And no, marking it immutable will not help. Open > the raw device and modify relevant blocks.
Kernel on writeprotected floppy disk...
-Dan
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