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Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit

Posted by Zonk on from the when-good-rootkits-go-bad-on-fox dept.

BokLM writes "Wired has an interesting article from Bruce Schneier about what's happening with the Sony Rootkit, and criticizing the anti-virus companies for not protecting its users. From the article: 'Much worse than not detecting it before Russinovich's discovery was the deafening silence that followed. When a new piece of malware is found, security companies fall over themselves to clean our computers and inoculate our networks. Not in this case.'"

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  1. Article sucks! by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I read that article this morning, misled by the title "the REAL story behind the Sony rootkit".

    It reads more or less:
    "And then this happened, but THAT's not the story.
    Also , this happened, but THAT's not the story.
    Sony did this, but THAT's not the story. ... etc etc...

    The REAL story is that the antivirus companies didn't detect it! Ta-da! :D"

    And I was like "WTF!? O.o I spent reading all those paragraphs to read THIS crap? OK now THAT's a story".

    Nothing worse than a title that is (at least) as misleading as the original Gator EULA.
    Blah.

  2. Another bruce presswhore event by tomstdenis · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Fuck off bruce, Dan Kaminksy and others have already done the REAL work of analyzing servers [etc] to see the damage.

    I swear to god that guy [Bruce] hasn't contributed anything meaningful to the public since 1998 and yet he's still fucking there.

    At least this article wasn't full of links back to his company.

    Tom

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