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polux · Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 11 Location: Switzerland

Hi Debernardis, I'm using from cd the latest 070227 Ruddy edition. I did a scan with chkrootkit and the results came with some infected files. I booted and rebooted several times and got the same results. Shocked

Checking `basename'... INFECTED
Checking `cron'... INFECTED
Checking `dirname'... INFECTED
Checking `echo'... INFECTED
Checking `env'... INFECTED
Checking `login'... INFECTED
Checking `passwd'... INFECTED
Checking `traceroute'... INFECTED
Searching for Suckit rootkit... Warning: /sbin/init INFECTED

Im running it in a normal cd (not a multi session) so I haven't modified or changed anything in it.
Can they be false positives or something to worry about?

debernardis · Joined: 12 Nov 2005 Posts: 171

This is a known issue: chkrootkit finds as anormal the busybox equivalents to standard gnu utilities.
See http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=8395
So no worry Cool

polux · Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 11 Location: Switzerland

Thank you for your fast reply Smile

And by the way, congratulations for such a great derivative you made.