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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?"
The first rule of the Sony Rootkit is that we do not talk about the Sony Rootkit.
The second rule of the Sony Rootkit is that we DO NOT TALK about the Sony Rootkit.
You can accomplish anything you set your mind to. The impossible just takes a little longer.
Because new music sucks.
I'm a big retard who forgot to log out of Slashdot on Mike's computer! LOOK AT ME.
NOSY
Better yet, you could take in an old box and drop it on the front desk and go "Excuse me, you've installed a virus on my PC via a Sony CD. Will you be removing it or should I charge by the hour at £X00(add as many 0s as you likee, but 2 sounds about right) for having to remove it via a repair guy (don't say you, it seems supicious).
:D
Demand compensation (for petrol to get there), the money to fix it and if they refuse tell them you'll take them to court for the damages (claim the box was used for something important like hosting websites and the rootkit has not passed some safety tests that all servers must pass at your company).
Aww the fun of being a sick little geek
Fed up with slashdot? I am too.
...I heard somewhere that if you play these new Sony CD(s) backwards, the rootkit data will say, "yur sole iss miiine. yur sole iss miine. Haaaaale Goooooogle! Whaaaaaat issss thigh bidding miii massster? RaaaaaaaaaaAaAaaAaaa!" ...and a plume of blood will shoot out of your CD tray and melt your face like that dude from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
\\//_
US Democracy:The best person for the job (among These pre-selected choices...)
The answer is clear. The U.S. must invade Japan to overthrow the government responsible for this cyber terrorism.
Your new Sony-BMG non-standards compliant music disc contains the Pwned.exe wonderful pretty music player. Click here to hear the music you've already paid for. Remember, you cannot return opened CD's for any refund. Have a nice day!
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
> They give spankings in the Air Force?
Yeah, and they have a "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding whether you like it, too.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
A few years ago a friend of mine gave me some old hard drives he got from the Army which was going to be tossed out. I tossed one of them in an old 486 I had lying around and after windows 95 bitched about missing hardware etc., up came a notice that THIS IS ARMY DATA BLAH BLAH BLAH. It didn't have any super secret documents but it did have MS Word, some shareware card games, and about 3 different viruses. Any AV software installed? Nah.
As opposed to reading /. ?
Doing so can result in corporal punishment.
Typical military! Meanwhile, the sergeants, lieutenants, captains, colonels and generals can do whatever they please.
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That's Tron, he fights for the users.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Well, apparently not paranoid enough :P
While you're down there, pass me up Sony's reputation, will you? :-)