Re: [Clamav-users] Does clamav protect against rootkits?

2007-10-14 Thread Aniruddha
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 08:14 +0800, Banyan He wrote: I don't think it can be used for protecting rootkit. You can try to see the messages log to see when the OS load the daemon and what about the running level. Aniruddha wrote: While viruses are hardly a problem in Linux rootkits are. Can

Re: [Clamav-users] Does clamav protect against rootkits?

2007-10-14 Thread Rob MacGregor
On 10/14/07, Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the answers, does anyone know this for sure? Quoting the ClamAV home page: ...designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. So no, it's not designed to detect rootkits. -- Please keep list traffic on the

Re: [Clamav-users] Does clamav protect against rootkits?

2007-10-14 Thread Dennis Peterson
Rob MacGregor wrote: On 10/14/07, Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the answers, does anyone know this for sure? Quoting the ClamAV home page: ...designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. So no, it's not designed to detect rootkits. I don't think it's

Re: [Clamav-users] Does clamav protect against rootkits?

2007-10-14 Thread John Rudd
Rob MacGregor wrote: On 10/14/07, Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the answers, does anyone know this for sure? Quoting the ClamAV home page: ...designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. So no, it's not designed to detect rootkits. Though, it might be

[Clamav-users] Does clamav protect against rootkits?

2007-10-10 Thread Aniruddha
While viruses are hardly a problem in Linux rootkits are. Can clamav detect rootkits? And if so how sophisticated is it's protection? Thanks in advance! Regards, Aniruddha ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net

Re: [Clamav-users] Does clamav protect against rootkits?

2007-10-10 Thread Jack Raats
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Try rkhunter! Jack - - Original Message - From: Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 10:25 AM Subject: [Clamav-users] Does clamav protect against rootkits? While viruses