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Date:      Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:40:34 -0500
From:      "Lewis Watson" <lists@visionsix.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Chkrootkit anomaly
Message-ID:  <00f001c36ca9$2c47ed50$df0a0a0a@vsis169>
References:  <DF09779544EFD511A17D0002A587F9D305AA6699@EXCHANGE07>

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> Since there have already been a couple of questions on this I thought
I'd
> see if anyone could shed some light on something I've noticed since I
> started running chkrootkit. It runs every 15 minutes (overkill? Nah.) in
> quiet mode to cut down on noise in the logs, and sporadically I get
these
> notifications:
>
> You have     1 process hidden for readdir command
> You have     1 process hidden for ps command
> Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed
>
> These messages will appear only on the odd occasion, seemingly
completely at
> random.
> False positives or very crafty rootkit?
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated!


Hi Sean,
I too have occasionally seen these, I am running 4.7-RELEASE.

Also, thanks for mentioning -q, I never knew there was such a thing :-)
Lewis



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