[lug] advice on possible rootkit

Ed Moxley ed at moxleynet.com
Thu Mar 25 22:26:52 MST 2004


On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 19:54, pjr at ucar.edu wrote:
> I could use some advice about a possible root kit installed on a
> machine I own.  The machine sits behind some serious firewalls, but
> our institution had some serious compromises in its security. There
> have been a few odd things taking place on the machine the last couple
> of days and I am being paranoid.
> 
> Today I ran chkroot (version 0.40) on the machine. I got a diagnosis
> of "possible LKM trojan installed".
> 

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> Can anybody offer me some advice?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Phil
> 
> -- 
> Phil Rasch, Climate Modeling Section, National Center for Atmospheric
> Research
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> 


You might want to try some of the ideas here:

http://la-samhna.de/library/rootkits/detect.html




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