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In this section, we will see how to install and configure Linux rootkit scanning tools and use as per our requirements:

To begin with, we will install chkrootkit, a classic rootkit scanner for Linux, as shown here:

Once the software has been installed, we can check the path where the software has been installed by running the following command:

Next, we check the Help menu to understand the options that can be used to run the tool:

If we want to see the list of available tests in chkrootkit, we can run the following ...

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