full-disclosure - Removing ShKit Root Kit

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From: wes at umich.edu (Wesley D Craig)
Subject: Removing ShKit Root Kit

On 22 Dec 2003, at 10:11, nicholas wrote:
> To avoid this sort of thing in the future, and to help you find out 
> what
> changed on your box, i'd look into www.lids.org, aide.sf.net,
> ippersonality.sf.net and bits and pieces of the openwall.com project 
> for
> server level security (not network/firewall level).

In addition to filesystem integrity checking, our tool:

	http://radmind.org/

can reverse the changes made by a root kit, providing you boot from 
known good media.  Of course, it is theoretically possible for a root 
kit to be totally undetectable, even by a tripwire...

:wes