[LINK] Sony's Rootkit

[Adam Todd]

Saturday night?  After you join those Aussie Adult web sites looking for 
"something different" and get bombarded with endless Russian Women looking 
for generous men!

Haven't they heard, Australia has a 50,000 head surplus of women looking 
for men!  We don't need imports, but I digress!

Just like we don't need more end users without a clue what a rootkit is!

At 08:34 AM 3/11/2005, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>How do you beat up a story when the non-techie reader will say "WTF is a 
>rootkit?  Is it something I get on a Saturday night?"
>
>rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au wrote:
>>Linkers,
>>You may have noticed the story regarding Sony's DRM rootkit: play the 
>>copy-protected CD in your PC, and it installs a hidden process which 
>>according to F-Secure could easily become a target vector for virus 
>>writers, and is difficult and dangerous to remove because you have to 
>>delete registry entries on a one-by-one basis. The original story is at 
>>www.sysinternals.com.
>>I was fascinated to notice that as at 7.10 am this morning, the local IT 
>>press has given the story just about nothing at all. Google News can find 
>>just one Australian publisher carrying the story; over on the "ordinary" 
>>Google, the local coverage is pretty much restricted to blogs and to 
>>people taking Slashdot feeds.
>>Even local sources which take wires don't, it seems, think the Sony 
>>Rootkit story has legs. I can't think of a better spot for some fancy 
>>conspiracy theorising, along the lines of "why does the Australian press 
>>think DRM rootkits aren't a problem?" Congrats to Adam Gosling at Smart 
>>House for giving a damn...
>>RC
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