Mike McCarty wrote: > M. Fioretti wrote: >> Hi, >> >> there is a remote (VPS) Centos 4.2 server which *may* have been >> compromised. Reinstalling everything from scratch isn't a problem, it >> may even be an occasion to improve a few things, the question is >> another. > > I use rkhunter and chkrootkit. I run them regularly. > > If you keep your machine clean, then your backups will be, too. > > If you get compromised, then your backups since compromise are > suspect. > > Mike When I tried yum -y install chkrootkit.i386 I got... No package chkrootkit.i386 available. When I tried yum -y install rkhunter.noarch I got... No package rkhunter.noarch available. These were the two names mentioned on my yum list, so I updated my yum list (yum -y list > yum.list), and I find that neither is present anymore. Regards, Chip Campbell