rkhunter and chkrootkit

[Snowhog]

Because ‘generally’, something that is hidden is seen as ‘suspect’. You have to know what is on your system, and why, if you are to get comfortable using these two tools. That either of them ‘identifies’ something doesn’t automatically mean that what has been identified is a real threat.

It is highly unlikely that you would ever encounter a rootkit on your system. You would have to be running your system ‘wide open’ to the world or doing extremely risking things on your system (booting into and running your system ‘as root’ all the time). I’m reasonably sure that isn’t your case.

Why do you think you need/want these two tools?

[anonprivate]

Assuming the buttons are in the same place in 14.04 as they are in 17.10, change the command to

sudo chkrootkit && bash

Then click the "advanced" tab and check the box which gives the option "run in terminal".

The best thing to do for warnings is copy paste them into a search engine. As you will see, this is a false positive.

Edit: That's not meant to be snarky. You just get an instant answer rather than waiting around for a forum reply

Why does this (konsole --noclose -e sudo rkhunter -c -sk && bash) not give me the command prompt at the end. When terminal is clicked in Advanced, I get two konsoles. Hence, I unticked it

[Bings]

At a guess, I'd say the "--noclose" prevents it from moving onto a subsequent command. In this case "bash", which is the user level command prompt.

[anonprivate]

At a guess, I'd say the "--noclose" prevents it from moving onto a subsequent command. In this case "bash", which is the user level command prompt.

I removed --noclose. The programme ran and the terminal closed at the end. I have re-introduced --noclose

[sithlord48]

run the command in konsole and you will be returned back to the prompt when it finishes . Running from the gui its running the one command in konsole then stoping that shell

[anonprivate]

run the command in konsole and you will be returned back to the prompt when it finishes . Running from the gui its running the one command in konsole then stoping that shell

Thank you for responding.

Using the same sort of command, and running from the GUI, chkrootkit returns a prompt, but rkhunter does not. Surely, I should be able to return a prompt?

Best wishes for the New Year