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?"

Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

[JediTrainer]

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.

Safe..

[seann]

Because new music sucks.

They might as well change their name to

[Anonymous Coward]

NOSY

Re:Get Back On Our Own - Boycott Sony

[Luke PiWalker]

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).

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 :D

Sony, the new ELO?

[Anonymous Coward]

...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.

\\//_

Re:Of Course, that is Sony's Security Policy

[BrynM]

Security through Obscurity.

You missspelled "obsurdity". Why do people keep doing that? ;)

I for one, welcome our new corporate overlords.

[Dr. Evil]

The answer is clear. The U.S. must invade Japan to overthrow the government responsible for this cyber terrorism.

Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

[scottschor]

rootkit ... I've got you, babe ... sony and share ...

Pwned

[Nom du Keyboard]

Sony only agreed not to ship more CD's with the existing rootkits. Nothing against improved versions. In fact...

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!

Re: Sony won't be harmed, users will

[Black Parrot]

> 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.

Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

[Anonymous Coward]

Er no you didn't. $sys$ is what you want.

Re:Governement PCs

[SydBarrett]

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.

Government workers are busy listening to music!?

[psgalbraith]

What the hell...300,000 people are placing music CDs at work? No wonder our government gets nowhere - they are all busy listening to music and playing games.

As opposed to reading /. ?

Re:Sony won't be harmed, users will

[FirstTimeCaller]

Doing so can result in corporal punishment.

Typical military! Meanwhile, the sergeants, lieutenants, captains, colonels and generals can do whatever they please.

1982 : 2006 ::MCP : DRM

[Thud457]

That's Tron, he fights for the users.

Re:Never made sense

[bint]

Our Lady Peace, Healthy in Paranoid Times (Columbia)

Well, apparently not paranoid enough :P

Re:Makes you wonder....

[Tim Browse]

I think I'll fall off my chair in shock.

While you're down there, pass me up Sony's reputation, will you? :-)