Sony RootKit Still A Problem?

XMilkProject writes "Current research indicates that some "350,000 networks--many belonging to the military and government--contain computers affected by [Sony's rootkit]." This is down from over half a million last month. "The security researcher worked from a list of 9 million domain-name servers.. asking each to look up whether an address used by the XCP software--in this case, xcpimages.sonybmg.com--was in the systems' caches." Will Sony face future repercussions for this potentially long-term damage?"

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Sanctioned Sources!!!

[Lord Bilbo]

I guess this is from a source "sanctioned" by /.

When you submit a story linking to a non-"sanctioned" web site, it just gets rejected!!!!

Sorry to the poster of this story, but I needed to get my 2 cents in before I am expunged from the system!!!!!!!

Lord Bilbo

Re:Repercussions? Nah.

[gmuslera]

Wonder what kind of repercussions had Microsoft because the multiples rootkits it bundled in his history (probably the latest WMF vulnerability could be called that way) and how much we can reach in the number of affected networks, but is far, far bigger than 350k, and is there since Windows 3.1, remotely explotable and without patches for most windows versions afaik.

If no problem yet for Microsoft, why should fear SONY?

Re:Makes you wonder....

[gwait]

Why on earth do you believe Microsoft's admin privileges scheme actually works? By the massive number of viruses/trojans/rootkits that came before, there is no evidence that Windows is secure.
This latest Sony DRM rootkit is more proof.