Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

Dan Hollis
2000-11-19T15:41:31Z

On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, David Lang 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.
> Yes, it is. Easily. If you've got root you can modify the kernel image and
> reboot the bloody thing. And no, marking it immutable will not help. Open
> the raw device and modify relevant blocks.

Kernel on writeprotected floppy disk...

-Dan