How To Ubuntu » rkhunter http://howto-ubuntu.net Focusing on the Long Term Support release -- Lucid 10.04 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:30:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Install rkhunter, root kit detection software http://howto-ubuntu.net/install-rkhunter-root-kit-detection-software/ http://howto-ubuntu.net/install-rkhunter-root-kit-detection-software/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 22:31:31 +0000 Eli http://howtoubuntu.wordpress.com/?p=8 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. [...]]]> 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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