Re: chkrootkit and LKM?

[Adam Sampson <azz () us-lot org>]

"Janus N." Tøndering <janus () bananus dk> writes:

> Checking `lkm'... You have    38 process hidden for readdir command
> Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed

Since you're using Red Hat 9, perhaps chkrootkit is getting confused
by the new NPTL threading support in the kernel and glibc? procps
certainly needed modifications to read the process listing correctly,
as groups of threads can now show up as single processes.

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Adam Sampson <azz () us-lot org>                   <http://azz.us-lot.org/>

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