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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
Cc: kraxel@bytesex.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 01:49:52 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7778.974645392@ocs3.ocs-net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Nov 2000 07:16:52 -0800." <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011190707340.22457-100000@dlang.diginsite.com>

On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 07:16:52 -0800 (PST), 
David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com> wrote:
>there is a rootkit kernel module out there that, if loaded onto your
>system, can make it almost impossible to detect that your system has been
>compramised. with module support disabled this isn't possible.

Wrong.  There are ways of attacking the kernel even if you have module
support disabled in the kernel.  Disabling modules only makes it a
little harder, do not think for one minute that because you have
disabled modules that you are safe against these root kits, you are
not.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-11-19 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-17  0:31 BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5 Werner Almesberger
2000-11-17 20:08 ` Gerd Knorr
2000-11-18 13:14   ` Werner Almesberger
2000-11-19  8:24     ` Gerd Knorr
2000-11-19 10:46       ` David Ford
2000-11-19 12:56         ` Gerd Knorr
2000-11-19 13:49           ` Keith Owens
2000-11-19 19:03             ` Gerd Knorr
2000-11-19 21:45               ` Keith Owens
2000-11-19 15:16           ` David Lang
2000-11-19 14:49             ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-19 15:11               ` Dan Hollis
2000-11-19 15:08                 ` Christer Weinigel
2000-11-19 15:45                   ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-19 15:54                     ` Dan Hollis
2000-11-19 21:08                     ` Ben Ford
2000-11-19 15:50                   ` Dan Hollis
2000-11-19 16:53                     ` Alan Cox
2000-11-19 20:53                       ` Rogier Wolff
2000-11-20  3:22                         ` Dan Hollis
2000-11-20  1:16                     ` David Woodhouse
2000-11-20  3:00                       ` Dan Hollis
2000-11-20 15:47                         ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2000-11-19 16:21                   ` David Ford
2000-11-19 21:06                   ` Ben Ford
2000-11-19 14:49             ` Keith Owens [this message]
2000-11-19 17:36             ` Gerd Knorr
2000-11-19 16:02           ` David Ford
2000-11-20 10:22           ` [PATCH] " Richard Guenther
2000-11-20  2:14       ` [PATCH] bttv_card & bttv_radio (was Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5) Werner Almesberger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-20  4:39 BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5 Wayne.Brown

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