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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You obviously didn't read the settlement

[TubeSteak]

As part of the settlement, Sony is agreeing not to enforce two key portions of the EULA

1. A $5 limit on damages
2. The requirement that you must sue Sony in New York

Once the settlement is official, Sony will have opened themselves up, such that they can be sued in court anywhere in the United States.

Small claims court is the most likely venue, because you don't really need a lawyer to represent yourself and if Sony doesn't send a representative, you get a default judgement.

Collecting might be a bitch, but in this case, it definitely won't be the lawyers making all the money.

Re:How-to?

[earthloop]

You do a non-recursive lookup.


[root@kryten pete]# nslookup
> set norecurse
> www.xmob.co.uk
Server: 192.168.0.1
Address: 192.168.0.1#53

Name: www.xmob.co.uk
Address: 217.77.184.55

> www.microsoft.com
Server: 192.168.0.1
Address: 192.168.0.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
*** Can't find www.microsoft.com: No answer
>