Re: strange outbound connection
On Friday 20 January 2006 05:56, Tom Allison wrote:
>Tim Hardy wrote:
>> If you're really worried you could install and run chkrootkit to see
>> if there's anything lurking on your machine that shouldn't be there
>> but I'm sure you'll find nothing and that there's an innocent
>> explanation for all this.
>>
>> Sorry I can't help more.
>
>Before I unleash a beast such as this on my machine.
>
>Can you tell me what chrootkit does/does not do?
>Mainly -- what are the chances of creating problems...
Zip. It scans the system looking for files whose signatures match known
rootkit and some viri stuff. I run it 2x a day from crontab on my
firewall box, and I keep it uptodate. And the combo of the router and
the firewall have pretty well kept the blackhats out, its not found
anything in 4 or 5 years now.
But its just another of the many guard dogs one can kennel. It sends
you an email with the results of the run. Otherwise its a fairly quiet
roommate.
--
Cheers, Gene
People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word
'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-)
Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
message by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
Reply to: