Blackhole

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Monday 11 April 2005 15:07, Chris Kenward wrote:
> Hi Gavin
>
> > If gcc needed to be installed to run the rootkit hunter, does it
> > make sense that the person trying to compile blackhole.c ran into
> > the same problems with not having a compilation environment?
>
> You just made me feel a whole lot better! ;) Thanks - never thought of
> that. Naturally there could have been other methods tried I guess but
> certainly he wouldn't have been able to compile the backdoor if that's
> indeed what was needed.

If I recall correctly, you mentioned that the blackhole file was an 
executable / binary, rather than a source code. So it's probably already 
compiled and dropped to your machine. 

RDB

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Reuben D. Budiardja
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

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