solved - guess what the PEZZO DI MERDA was?
F–KING CITRIX!
It has some COMPLETE UTTER BULLSHIT component called App Protection - I noticed something running in bashtop (I find bashtop is better for troubleshooting stuff than actual “top” or “htop”).
So - I purged removed ICAClient and now I have everything back - AFTER THOSE BASTARDS made me purge, and reboot, and rinse FUCKING REPEAT ad nauseam… do they even test their SHIT on real world platforms? Thank f–k I didn’t actually need this thing to do my job!
Note : the Citrix installer NEVER ever asked for my consent to install that PIECE of GARBAGE! What a diabolical piece of crap!
If I need Citrix (and I do, for my job) I’ll just fire up the Citrix session from a browser, or on one of my Macs… I reckon I might investigate if Citrix installed this GARBAGE on my MacBooks too!
UNBELIEVABLE!
That chrootkit check thing also claimed to have found something :
Linux.Xor.DDoS
Searching for Linux.Xor.DDoS ... INFECTED: Possible Malicious Linux.Xor.DDoS installed
but I’m a bit suspicious of this claim…
VERY suspicious it’s a false positive - read somewhere this comes up if you have an executable file in /tmp - so I put one there (44) :
Searching for Linux.Xor.DDoS ... INFECTED: Possible Malicious Linux.Xor.DDoS installed
/tmp/44
and it comes up - all 44 does is weed all ALL the extraneous bullshit that the “ip a” command spits out about EVERY fucking NIC on my system :
╭─x@titan ~/ResilioSync/bigshit/binaries/BINSHITBIN/SHITCUNT/chkrootkit-0.56
╰─➤ cat /tmp/44
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# show only ipv4 shite... who's got time to parse fucking ipv6???
ip -4 a