[CLUE-Tech] Suse 9.1pro and chkrootkit

[Angelo Bertolli]

Nate Duehr wrote:

>On Monday 26 July 2004 23:24, j7s12b wrote:
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>>Hi!
>>I have been using Suse 9.1pro for ~ a month now and it's
>>not bad. Today I ran a fresh chkrootkit and it turned up some
>>problems.
>>-----------------------------------
>># ./chkrootkit
>>....
>>Checking `find'... INFECTED
>>Checking `top'... INFECTED
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>>
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>I have the same thing on a SuSE 9.1 that's probably not infected.  (It's the 
>laptop, has always lived on "internal" networks and has no ports other than 
>the bare minimum necessary open to do work on it.
>  
>

Oh don't worry, it could just be the case that Novell wants to make sure 
they have root access to your computer just in case they need it.