Which to trust: chkrootkit or rkhunter?

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Thu Jun 7 16:47:26 UTC 2012


On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 15:16:09 +0000 (UTC)
Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net> wrote:

> 
> 	One tells me, on several machines, that /sbin/init is infected 
> with the Suckit rootkit; the other says not. Is there a way to tell 
> whether I'm seeing a false positive or a false negative? 

chkrootkit thinks that the new systemd replacement for init is an
infection[1]. Nothing to worry about.

Alan
[1] Some users think likewise but it's not a worm or virus 8)


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