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LinuxSecurity: AIDE and CHKROOTKIT
Sep 2, 2004, 07 :00 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (5966 reads)

(Other stories by Vincenzo Ciaglia)

[ Thanks to Linuxsecurity.com for this link. ]

"Chkrootkit does a good job checking of every part of the system trying to search rootkits or LKM trojans. Let's download the package from the official home page of the project: http://www.chkrootkit.org. When I wrote this article the latest version is 0.43 that contain some improvements as new rootkits detection (AjaKit and zaRwT), new CGI backdoors detection, the new function '-n' used to skip NFS mounted directories and many minor bugs corrections. A complete list of all the trojans and CGI backdoors detected is available from the home page of the project. Once downloaded the package we are ready to compile it. Let's unpacking with the command 'tar xzf chkrootkit.tar.gz' and enter in the new directory with 'cd chkrootkit-0.43/'. At this point give 'make sense' to compile the program and after that we are really ready to launch './chkrootkit' to test immediately the integrity of our system. But this isn't all..."

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Related Stories:
Linux Magazine: Finding Rootkits, Infections, and Files(Jul 11, 2004)
NewsForge: Is There a Rootkit Hunter in Your Arsenal?(Apr 09, 2004)
Linux Journal: Roll Your Own Firewall with Netfilter(Oct 14, 2003)
Help Net Security: Detecting and Understading Rootkits(Aug 15, 2003)


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