rkhunter-1.1.9-1.ps.noarch.rpm available (fwd)

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Gregory Boyce wrote:
> Without statically compiled programs for the script to run, how do you 
> know you can trust the restults?  A number of rootkits will actually 
> provide a trojoned md5sum that will just give you the results you're 
> looking for rather than the real results for the modified binaries.
> 
> chkrootkit (http://www.chkrootkit.org/) is designed to be compiled on a 
> known good host, then copied to the system that you're not sure about. 
> All programs used are statically compiled binaries protecting against this 
> sort of thing.

That's a good point.

I would suggest using both, though.  Never was a castle built with only 
one means of defense.

Any kind of rootkit detector is only going to be as good as its database 
of rootkits to detect, just like virus detectors.  If you install both, 
you increase your odds.


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