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Rootkit Hunter 1.3.5-dev progress

Posted 08-05-2009 at 09:47 AM by unSpawn
Updated 08-05-2009 at 09:49 AM by unSpawn

Take a peak at RKH's SF CVS stats and you will see that activity picked up again. Currently the RKH 1.3.5(-dev) Changelog (rev1.119) lists 16 bugfixes, 13 new items, 14 changes and counting.

It was a bit sad to notice some of the existing signatures were incomplete though. And while everyone knows breaches of security "the old school rootkit way" have dropped to nil, RKH aims to be complete. So I'll be replaying rootkit installs again and working on improving rootkit checks...

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Rootkit Hunter announces release 1.3.4

Posted 12-30-2008 at 05:23 PM by unSpawn

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Finally Rootkit Hunter release 1.3.4 is here listing 4 additions, 8 changes and 9 bugfixes. Thanks to all contributors who made this release possible by providing code, submitting ideas, bugs, fixes, documentation, testing from CVS, helping out on the rkhunter-users mailing list and promoting Rootkit Hunter.
Even though it's a given by now, the project wouldn't be going anywhere without John Horne...

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Rootkit Hunter 1.3.2 release imminent...

Posted 02-25-2008 at 08:38 PM by unSpawn

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The team will be releasing RKH-1.3.2, which will fix aprox 10-ish bugs, RSN.

I thank all the contributors on our rkhunter-users mailing list and all who submitted bugs and patches to our bug tracker. I thank John again for his dedication and work on RKH and Aus9 for his work on the RKH Wiki page at LQ, documentation and persistence in general. I also like to thank the anonymous crowd that managed to D/L RKH from SF over the months. (I still find it weird that if you look below the...

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The Rootkit Hunter is looking for C/C++ developers

Posted 11-22-2006 at 12:40 PM by unSpawn

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We're looking for developers who have C/C++, experience developing applications on POSIX-based systems and an understanding of shell scripts, work together as a team and who can dedicate time on a more or less regular basis.

If you want to help develop Rootkit Hunter or like more information please contact me.

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Rootkit Hunter release 1.2.9

Posted 09-29-2006 at 10:47 PM by unSpawn

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Yeah, we finally did it, 1.2.9 is here!

My sincere thanks to all who made this project and this release possible: the Rootkit Hunter project team, all contributors and testers, all RKH users, those who kept nagging us for a release, Linuxquestions.org, Sourceforge for unfaltering support and Michael Boelen for providing RKH and relinquishing control.

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