Sony will suffer in the long-term perspective. Think of their reputation and the severed trust between Sony and its consumers. Personally, I think they deserve it. This is a good example of the saying: "Don't screw around with your customers."
Please read:
http://kyeu.info/proxo/forums/viewtopic.php?t=699
I have created a filter that would kill any WMF-Exploit file, regardless of file extension. This is due to a new matching method I've discovered in Proxomitron, where it matches the magic bytes of known exploit files.
Most people don't know Proxomitron can serve as a workaround to this issue.
In my opinion, it serves the same protection as an antivirus in this case, as it's basically matching hex values and killing the connection upon a successful match.
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Sony will suffer in the long-term perspective. Think of their reputation and the severed trust between Sony and its consumers. Personally, I think they deserve it. This is a good example of the saying: "Don't screw around with your customers."
Please read: http://kyeu.info/proxo/forums/viewtopic.php?t=699 I have created a filter that would kill any WMF-Exploit file, regardless of file extension. This is due to a new matching method I've discovered in Proxomitron, where it matches the magic bytes of known exploit files. Most people don't know Proxomitron can serve as a workaround to this issue. In my opinion, it serves the same protection as an antivirus in this case, as it's basically matching hex values and killing the connection upon a successful match.