Hi Mez,

> My chkrootkit log this morning is showing:
>
> Checking `sniffer'...
> eth0 is PROMISC
> eth0:0 is PROMISC
> eth0:2 is PROMISC
> eth0:3 is PROMISC
> eth0:4 is PROMISC
> eth0:5 is PROMISC
> eth0:1 is PROMISC
>
> Is this anything to worry about? Or can anyone tell me what it means?

That normally indicates that a network sniffer is active on your machine and 
is monitoring the network traffic. Unless you manually launched "tcpdump" or 
a similar shell command to diagnose your network traffic this is indeed 
something to worry about. Did chkrootkit warn you about any modified binaries?

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With best regards,

Michael Stauber
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Unix/Linux Support Engineer
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