I just installed Fedora 13 and this does seem like overkill. Probably more useful if you have an older system that had a chance to be infected.

I've used rkhunter (Root Kit Hunter) in the past (on my old Ubuntu machine) and even though it might be a little overtly paranoid it's not a bad idea to run sometimes and check your system integrity. Now that I've recently got a fresh Fedora 13 install I wanted to set up rkhunter again on my clean system. I installed it with YUM: # yum install rkhunter and invoked it to make it update it's file properties database (basically saying: this system i … Read More

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