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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
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Subject: Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5 
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On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 07:16:52 -0800 (PST), 
David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com> wrote:
>there is a rootkit kernel module out there that, if loaded onto your
>system, can make it almost impossible to detect that your system has been
>compramised. with module support disabled this isn't possible.

Wrong.  There are ways of attacking the kernel even if you have module
support disabled in the kernel.  Disabling modules only makes it a
little harder, do not think for one minute that because you have
disabled modules that you are safe against these root kits, you are
not.

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