Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

Keith Owens
2000-11-19T15:20:27Z

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.