On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Tuesday 14 February 2006 07:27, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:
> >On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 02:46:48AM -0500, Stephen wrote:
> >> Is this a valid response or false positive ?
> >>
> >> /etc/cron.daily/chkrootkit:
> >> eth0: PACKET SNIFFER(/sbin/dhclient[1102])
> >
> >False positive; it's because that program has your ethernet interface
> > in promiscuous mode. For dhclient, this is completely normal, it
> > needs to do this to function correctly.
> 
> The machine I got that sample response from in the last post, doesn't 
> have a utility named dhclient on it, so I cannot confirm that this is 
> correct.  It probably is though.
> 
> Friggin vz blocks port 80 so we can't run our own web pages.  And they 
> are the only game in town...:(

FYI, try DynDNS's WebHop <http://www.dyndns.com/services/webredirect/webhop/> 
to get around ISP's brain-damaged port blocks.  It's free and it works
great!

-- Brad


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