[Sussex] Possible root kit

[David Chapman]

My DVD tray keeps opening unexpectedly so I ran chkrootkit.
The result does not look good.
Besides the reinstalling what is the next course of action.

This is a SUSE 9.0 system


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hydrogen:/home/dave/chkrootkit-0.42b # ./chkrootkit  lkm
ROOTDIR is `/'
Checking `lkm'... You have     8 process hidden for ps command
Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed
hydrogen:/home/dave/chkrootkit-0.42b #
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