User support is great and needed here, but I was kind of hoping that John or 
UnSpawn would jump in and describe the kind of help wanted. Although programing 
would be of benefit, my guess is that that's the easiest part of keeping things 
up-to-date.  I suspect there is a need for skills that involve familiarization 
with one or more platform OS's and the current threats and vulnerabilities 
specific to them. 
- What rootkits are prevalent for each platform these days that are not being 
covered by RKHunter 1.4.2 or 1.4.3 and more importantly, how can they be 
detected and where do they install? 
- Same with today's common malware, although most of that is already covered by 
the A-V providers. 
- OS Specific vulnerability checks.
- Individuals to maintain the databases some as old as 2007
        • backdoorports.dat: ports used as backdoors
        • programs_bad.dat: Exim MTA, GnuPG, Apache, Bind DNS, OpenSSL, PHP, 
Proemial MTA, ProFTPD, OpenSSH, etc. (list of vulnerable versions)
- Foreign language translators

And finally, a team of beta testers, at least one per platform, to quickly and 
thoroughly test the next version and give quality feedback to the programmers.

-Al-

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 08:12 AM, Sam Ashley wrote:
> 
> I agree that to the community rkhunter is really appreciated, though
> yes, probably taken for granted. I'm not a programmer, so not really
> able to help with it. But I much appreciate the work John and UnSpawn
> have done.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Very best,
> Sam

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