[lotuseclat79]

Linux malware.

Check out the Threats (trojans, viruses, worms) section.

Linux anti-trojan software is normally rkhunter and chkrootkit.

Check out List of antivirus software.

-- Tom

[Lordandmaker]

Originally Posted by lotuseclat79

Linux anti-trojan software is normally rkhunter and chkrootkit.

These are anti-rootkit (well, rootkit detection and cleanup), not anti-trojan.

Anti-trojan is done by the anti-virus software. ClamAV is the popular free one, but the big Windows people sells theirs for nix, too.

[lotuseclat79]

Hi Lordandmaker,

Mostly you are correct, but the payload (trojan) is often part of a rootkit that deposits the trojan in the first place. As an example, a former colleague of mine, an OS engineer whom runs a Linux server at home got behind (tsk, tsk) in keeping his security updates current (a common occurrence by many whom run servers at home) - as a result, his server was "served up" with the Suck It rootkit accompanied by a trojan. Chkrootkit helped to identify the situation for him, and he took appropriate measures to clean it up. He should have known better and was quite embarrassed by the compromise.

-- Tom

[lotuseclat79]

Hi TRS-80 vet,

Please open up a new thread as this is an entirely different issue. You can delete post #4 in this thread after saving the content to open a new thread of your own.

Thanks, please indicate which Linux distribution OS/version you are running.

-- Tom