Re: Chkrootkit - can't find 'strings'

From: Bit Twister (BitTwister_at_localhost.localdomain)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 13:54:26 GMT

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 04:53:54 GMT, Sam Miller wrote:
>>
>> I would run memtest86 or have a hardware problem.
>
> I believe you've got something there. By the way, copying /usr/bin/strings
> from the one machine to the other got chkrootkit started again. I
> downloaded the latest tarball and was given a clean slate.

You cannot compile chkrootkit on a compromised system and trust it.