Tomas Larsson írta:
Obviously there must be flaws in any OS/SW even Linux, as an example my FC4-server was rooted, due to a flaw in php/MySQL. I ended up with a complete re-install, if it was a windows-system, first of all, it wouldn't probably happen, since my AW would have taken care of it, plus the fact that I would have managed to remove it without re-installing, So in a sence Linux is far much more complicated to restore, compared to Windows XP.
I cleaned a rootkit once off a RedHat 7.1 system by using "rpm -Va". It didn't need reinstallation the whole system. If you have any (non-config) files that differ from what rpm knows, you can reinstall the package that was modified. You don't overwrite system-provided binaries yourself, right? Any compiled-from-source software should go into /usr/local or /opt... Best regards, Zoltán Böszörményi
