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Thanks for the reassurance. It seems I have nothing to worry about and I can resume enjoying my recent switch to MX. Please ensure you update your post on the Distrowatch site - otherwise MX will become known as a distro with rootkits blah blah blah.....which is not the case.........and no don't ...

Thanks for the reassurance. It seems I have nothing to worry about and I can resume enjoying my recent switch to MX.

I've seen it trip over a pid file for udev, which a systemd booting system wouldn't have but a sysVinit running system does. xorddos is a pretty serious rootkit. I don't know that I'm comfortable continuing to use a distro that has identified rootkits, especially without an explanation from the ...

Someone in the comments section of DistroWatch Weekly this week suggested running lynis and rkhunter in MX Linux. I ran rkhunter on my recently installed two systems and it discovered a number of rootkits. I decided to run rkhunter on the booted live flash drive in case any software I had installed ...