http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net/
This is a tool to check for rootkits in a compromised system. Rootkits belong to malware which is installing itself different than viruses do. Antivirus-Software alone are not sufficient enough to protect against rootkits.
@JoshStrobl Technically a bit of a necro to someone else's post, but I guess my usecase for it would be because I'm running Solus for my work machine, and so are a few other colleagues (with likely more to come), but due to increasing security concerns and requirements, we want to be running rkhunter on all our machines to handle rootkit scanning and reporting to our security team.
Agree, with @Adrian-Turjak we need some tooling. ClamAV cover some aspect but not all and since Solus is unique it would a bit more difficult to get another solution.
| Name: | rkhunter |
| Homepage: | http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net/ |
| OpenSource: | Yes (GPLv2) |
| Use Case: | Commercial and high security use |
| Tarball: | https://sourceforge.net/projects/rkhunter/files/rkhunter/1.4.6/rkhunter-1.4.6.tar.gz |
rkhunter would harden the system regarding rootkits more than clam-av does.
The latest relase 1.4.6 is from 2018-02-24. But I see active development in the source code: https://sourceforge.net/p/rkhunter/rkh_code/ci/develop/tree/