Hello, Charles. I would suggest you to reinstall sysvinit, it's a core package which manages processes launch at boot time. Not surprising it shows you some sort of garbage when you open it in a text editor, it is a binary file and, as such, is designed to be run by your hardware, not to be opened and be read by a human. If that doesn't work, that result could be a false positive ; anti-malware software are prone to display such errors where there is no malware, for example because the scanned program contains low level code which could be a malware code. Because /sbin/init is a very low level program, and a core one, this result could of course be a false positive. If the package reinstall doesn't solve this warning, I suggest you to contact your scan program developers to ask them if such false positive results are known, and, if so, how to get rid of it. Hoping this helps you, Regards. Le jeudi 05 juin 2014 à 18:29:54 -0400, Charles Kroeger a écrit: > On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 14:30:02 +0200 > David Guyot <david.guyot@europecamions-interactive.com> wrote: > > > Anyone saying that Debian and its software are flawless lies or > > doesn't know what's he is talking about. > > How true. And by the way, I have had chkrootkit installed for a long time and the > other day I ran it after an upgrade and voilà: > > Searching for Suckit rootkit... Warning: /sbin/init INFECTED > > as a Sysadmin what do you suggest I can do to rid myself if this? Looking > into /sbin/init only shows a lot of stuff that looks like modern art. > > I await your help, RSVP > > -- > CK > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > Archive: [🔎] bvc9b2Fs5t6U1@mid.individual.net">https://lists.debian.org/[🔎] bvc9b2Fs5t6U1@mid.individual.net > -- David Guyot Administrateur système, réseau et télécommunications / Sysadmin Europe Camions Interactive / Stockway Moulin Collot F-88500 Ambacourt Tel: +33 (0)3 29 30 47 85 Fax : +33 (0)3 29 31 31 31
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