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Re: rkhunter report



On Sat 20 Nov 2010 at 16:50:59 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:

> are you saying rkhunter is not worth running?

Chosen at random.

beX2, portacelo and devil rootkits: Distinguished by there being no
evidence for their existence. A doctor telling me to avoid contracting
beX2, portacelo or devil disease would get raised eyebrows in the same
situation.

Slapper Worm: ". . . . spreads on Linux machines by using a flaw
discovered in August 2002 in OpenSSL libraries." (www.f-secure.com). And
the flaw hasn't been fixed?

You'll have to make your own mind up about the value of rkhunter. Go
through what it claims to detect one by one.


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