[closed] Re: security issue?

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On 11/28/24 10:24 AM, home user via users wrote:
(f-40, stand-alone workstation, gnome)

A few times in the past couple of months, I've received the following warning from "chkrootkit":
- - - - - -
bash.1[~]: chkrootkit
ROOTDIR is `/'
Checking `amd'... not found
[snip]
Checking `bindshell'... not infected
Checking `lkm'... You have     1 process hidden for ps command
chkproc: Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed
chkdirs: nothing detected
Checking `rexedcs'... not found
[snip]
Checking `OSX_RSPLUG'... not tested
bash.2[~]:
- - - - - -
Leading and trailing lines are merely context.  "rkhunter" gives no warnings.

What's going on with that lkm warning?


(general reply)

The google search results I saw were for ubantu and other "flavors" of Linux, but I did not notice anything for Fedora.  (but I could easily have missed something)

The google search results I saw were from nearly a decade ago and older.  But when I did "dnf history chkrootkit" before opening this thread (and now), I saw (and still see) this:
 1537 | upgrade                   | 2023-12-21 10:56 | C, E, I, O, U  |  239 ><
So it seems to me that chkrootkit is still being maintained.  wikipedia confirmed, both before opening this thread, and now.  Yet them google search results, even from more than a decade ago, said that what I reported is a known problem with chkrootkit.  After more than a decade, it ain't fixed?!

Before opening this thread (and now), chkrootkit has no man page.  I saw nothing helpful in chkrootkit -help (or -h) before opening this thread (and now).

When it comes to Fedora and Linux matters, I much prefer to trust, and much more trust, the expert, professional, very experienced helpers in this list over google or any other internet search engine (or "AI").  This list's help is likely to be current and specific.

I gather from two thread responses that what I got was a false alarm.

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