Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit

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.'"

Comments

It's all our own fault!

[samjam]

If we had properly welcomed our new DRM overlords this would not have happened!

AGGHH

Sam

Mr Bill Gates says

[Skiron]

"See! We don't produce crap code that BSOD all the time - it is all these 'root-kits' that lusers, hmm, I mean Customers install!"

There yer go. Nothing wrong with MS products at all.

The BIG downside

[abirdman]

Does anyone else think the worst thing about this whole affair is that in order to get the rootkit, you have to listen to Celine Dion's Greatest Hits? (I know, there are others, but not that many.) Arrrgh... Don't listen to that crap! The listening experience has got to be as bad as the rootkit experience-- worse!! Maybe this will succeed in killing off the worst thing that has happened to our culture in the last 100 years-- the growth of "hitmakers" music. Gaaack!