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Sony Warned Weeks Ahead of Rootkit Flap

Posted by Zonk on from the going-a-little-slowly dept.

pdschmid writes "Business Week has an article describing how Sony BMG had been warned by F-Secure on Oct. 4 about the dangers of their rootkit protection, but failed to do anything until Oct. 31 when computer-systems expert Mark Russinovich revealed the rootkit in his blog." From the article: "Sony BMG officials insist that they acted as quickly as they could, and that they expected to be able to go public and offer a software patch at the same time. However, Russinovich posted his blog item first, forcing Sony BMG to scramble to contain the crisis. It recalled millions of CDs recorded by 52 artists, including Van Zant, Celine Dion, and Neil Diamond. Plus, it offered exchanges to customers."

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  1. Sony Root Kit foiled my attempts by buddhahat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    to spread the love of Neil Diamond to all and sundry across the internet. I had so hoped to illegally share that ND CD... damn you Sony!

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  2. Re:recalled? by nathanh · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It recalled millions of CDs recorded by 52 artists, including Van Zant, Celine Dion, and Neil Diamond. CDs by these artists should have been recalled anyway, rootkit or not.

    Nah mate! Neil Diamond will do Crunchy Granola. Good song! Da na na - neh - neh - neh...

    /obscure?