A rootkit is a program (or combination of several programs) designed to take control of a computer system, without authorization. It assumes administrative, or root level control of the system. This control isn’t taken for your benefit, it’s malicious. Antivurs software might not get these little buggers, so root kit detection software comes in. This one, rkhunter, will search for them, find them, and then do whatever you want with them. Here’s how to get it. Open a terminal and enter…
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sudo apt-get install rkhunter
That’ll download & install the software. It gets run from the command line, and you can see how to use it by executing the help feature…
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rkhunter
You will also want to update it’s definitions file…
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sudo rkhunter – -update
Now you have an up to date, root kit detection application.
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sudo: rkhunter–update: command not found
Sorry Mickey, made a mistake in that last comment. The command should be…
sudo rkhunter – -update
Thats sudo rkhunter, then one space, then two dashes, then update.