I regulary scan my cPanel servers for trojans, and I always get a small list of possible trojans. Of some of those I'm sure that they're not trojans, but I'm not 100% sure about some. It's not like I have been having _any_ problems at all, but for security matters I need to be absolutely sure that I haven't got any trojans at my servers.

Does anyone know how I can find out if those possible trojans are real trojans?

Thanks,

Apoc

don't worry about. It just cpanel thing.

Post the information of those items you are questioning. Perhaps some light could be shed on them.

Originally posted by VNPIXEL
don't worry about. It just cpanel thing.

I know, but cPanel doesn't have that function for nothing. IF I ever get a trojan for whatever reason, it will display it, and then if I ignore it now, I'd ignore it then as well.

Due to some reasons I can't post that list here. But are there any specific signs that something could be a trojan, or is there a list of known trojans that bug webhosts?

the Trojan function in CPanel is next to hopeless. It doesn't provide enough information and throws up false positives left and center. I understand what you're saying though, but in all seriousness I'd stick to checking things via shell.

Greg Moore

You may want to consider chkrootkit instead of Cpanel Trojan scanner, which was created with the right idea, but falls woefully short. It's a waste of time to use it really.

The CPanel trojan scanner is horrible, it detects perl, sendmail, and many other standard programs as trojans. chkrootkit would be a good thing to use (note to self: install chkrootkit on own server).

- Matt

Ok, thanks for all reactions. Does any of you know if there's any (reasonable-priced) anti-virus and trojan scanner, especially for webhosts, or at least operational at redhat?

Oh nevermind, I thought sprintserve ment to say that chkrootkit is crap as well, but it seems like that's the good stuff :)

awww its cpanel now thats full of trojans it self..hehe

cpanel full of trojans? hmm I wonder where u base that on..

Originally posted by Apoc
cpanel full of trojans? hmm I wonder where u base that on..

the formmail.cgi clone & guestbook.cgi bugs possibly :eek3:

That's not a trojan. That's a bug. Cpanel is buggy, but they don't put trojans (not that I know anyway).