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I just installed and ran my first rootkit check and it gave me three warnings or suspect files. I checked rkhunter --help file but it wasn't much help. How do I fix them?
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Originally Posted by judoka
I just installed and ran my first rootkit check and it gave me three warnings or suspect files. I checked rkhunter --help file but it wasn't much help. How do I fix them?
Which distro are you running ?
And what exactly are the warnings
For the record, this post was pruned from here, in order to focus on one topic at a time. I wasn't able to post a notice here earlier, due to some technical problems I experienced.
I'm using ubuntu 9.04 i can't tell you the problems because when i tried to run it again with rkhunter -c it said you must be root user to run this command but it didn't prompt me for a password -- strange
after performing the check i had warnings in /usr/sbin/inetd /usr/sbin/unhide and usr/sbinunhide-linux26 also when checkng for rootkits i had
Performing trojan specific checks
Checking for enabled inetd services [ Warning ] and
Performing filesystem checks
Checking /dev for suspicious file types [ Warning ]
Read the README (isn't that big) before running it and make sure you configure rkhunter.conf and run "--propupd". On error read your logfile and check the FAQ (isn't that big either) for clues, there's even a mailing list archive you can check, and if nothing else comes up post *complete* log lines and error messages. Just saying "hey, I got this [error]" doesn't quite cut it.
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rkhunter warnings or suspect files
