Linux: Root Kit Hunter

Root Kit Hunter, aka “rkhunter” is a great little utility for *nix based systems that will check for known vulnerabilities and backdoors installed on a Linux box, otherwise know as “root kits”.

Once you install it, simply “su root”, then try running it with the following arguments:

$ rkhunter –checkall –createlogfile

Process only took about 5 minutes on my system, and gave me one warning (I won’t say what so none of you try to hack my machine).

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2 Responses to “Linux: Root Kit Hunter”

  1. Dutch Rapley says:

    That’s pretty cool. Do you run that in conjunction with chkrootkit (http://www.chkrootkit.org/)?

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  2. chovy says:

    haven’t seen that one yet. But if it’s open source and available for Linux I’d recommend it.

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