Rootkit Hunter V1.3.0 in the wild

Rootkit scanner is scanning tool to ensure you for about 99.9%* you’re clean of nasty tools. This tool scans for rootkits, backdoors and local exploits by running tests like:

The changelog for this release is packed listing over 30 new features, 47 changes and 16 bugfixes. To name a few:

  • New command-line option ’—propupd’ replaces ’hashupd.sh’.
  • New command-line option ’—pkgmgr’ supporting RPM, Dpkg and BSD-style package managers.
  • New command-line option ’—hash’ to select the hash function command for the file hash value check and the properties update.
  • Added support for Ubuntu, and the ’dash’ and ’ash’ shells.
  • Added basic internationalization (i18n) functionality.
  • Added two new command-line and configuration file options, ’—enable’ and ’—disable’
    to specify which tests are to be carried out and which are to be ignored.
  • Added support for Solaris 10 inetd mechanism (inetadm).
  • Application version numbers can now be whitelisted. This caters for those distributions
    that may patch a ’known bad’ version, but without updating the original version number.
  • Fixes since rkhunter-1.3.0-beta 2