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Sony RootKit Still A Problem?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this-stuff-never-dies dept.

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?"

3 of 268 comments (clear)

  1. How-to? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How do you restrict a DNS query to cache? Don't most DNS servers do recursive queries, looking up the address and replying if it is not in the cache?

  2. Re:Get Back On Our Own - Boycott Sony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Rediculous" isn't a word.

    Excellent excellent post otherwise. I don't mean to slam you or put you down, I just hope any future postings you make use the proper words. Again, no aim to slam, I'm far from a perfect poster (heh just search for anything posted by Anonymous Coward-- most is blathering idiocy)-- but spelling ridiculous, "rediculous", is silly.

    Oh... Sony Sucks! That should stay on topic.

  3. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by puddpunk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WHY ISNT THIS MODDED UP? :(