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Digital Disaster- the Sony Rootkit Fiasco
various FR links & stories
| 11-21-05
| the heavy equipment guy
Posted on 11/21/2005 3:04:13 PM PST by backhoe
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posted on
11/21/2005 3:04:16 PM PST
by
backhoe
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
11/21/2005 3:07:53 PM PST
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered. ©)
To: backhoe
Well, at least I am not infected.
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posted on
11/21/2005 3:11:44 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Well, at least I am not infected.Glad to hear it.
Sony really screwed the pooch with this one.
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posted on
11/21/2005 3:13:24 PM PST
by
backhoe
(The Silence of the Tom's ( Tired Old Media... ))
To: backhoe
Thanks. This was a frustrating event to cover because many of the insightful stories were on Wired which has revoked our visa.
To: backhoe
Sony really screwed the pooch with this one.
I don't think that goes far enough, what Sony/BGM done may earn itself a corperate Darwin Award for bankrupting itself because of class actions lawsuits against them because of the arrogance and paranoia in screwing over the people who actually pay money for their music.
To: backhoe
Thank goodness we haven't bought a CD for, like 15 years....
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posted on
11/21/2005 3:51:09 PM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(© 2005, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
To: Paul C. Jesup
I don't think that goes far enough, what Sony/BGM done may earn itself a corperate Darwin Award for bankrupting itself because of class actions lawsuits against them because of the arrogance and paranoia in screwing over the people who actually pay money for their music. I think the lawsuits are actually going to be a drop in the bucket compared with loss of sales. IMHO, Sony has successfully killed off Blu-Ray and quite possibly the PS3 as well.
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posted on
11/21/2005 3:57:29 PM PST
by
supercat
(Sony delinda est.)
To: backhoe
I have been using sysinternal's rootkit revealer for over a year now and run it on all of our company computers as a scheduled task.
When it completes it emails the results to me and I connect to the affected computers and remove the suspect files, no harm no foul. I don't generally go through additional steps to determine who's rootkit is being dropped in the system.
The problem I have with Sony is that it will be very hard for them to claim that the rootkit wasn't installed secretly,(which is what they are now claiming), because one of the characteristics of a rootkit file is that it assumes an alias of a known benign file to prevent spyware programs from detecting it.
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posted on
11/21/2005 4:01:37 PM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Ham & Eggs: A day's work for a hen, A lifetime commitment for a pig.)
To: HEY4QDEMS
The problem I have with Sony is that it will be very hard for them to claim that the rootkit wasn't installed secretly,(which is what they are now claiming), because one of the characteristics of a rootkit file is that it assumes an alias of a known benign file to prevent spyware programs from detecting it.
I guess Sony/BGM wants to add perjury to their growing list of crimes.
To: HEY4QDEMS
I have been using sysinternal's rootkit revealer for over a year now and run it on all of our company computers as a scheduled task.I appreciate that info- not having run it, I was reluctant to give it anything besides "for informational purposes."
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posted on
11/21/2005 4:33:33 PM PST
by
backhoe
To: supercat
Loss of sales? Count me in. How can you trust them after this? I just won't take the chance.
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posted on
11/21/2005 5:10:23 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: All
Here's where I link everything I find on browsers, OS's, malware, and general tech interest:
Browser Wars, take two
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posted on
11/21/2005 5:10:58 PM PST
by
backhoe
To: metmom
It should be mentioned that it was the bloggers that brought all this out in the open and forced Sony to withdraw the CDs. If it were up to the mainstream media, very few of us would ever find out about it. We live in a different world now and mainstream media is quickly becoming irrelevant.
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posted on
11/21/2005 5:14:44 PM PST
by
SamAdams76
(What Would Howard Roarke Do?)
To: SamAdams76
It should be mentioned that it was the bloggers that brought all this out in the open and forced Sony to withdraw the CDs. If it were up to the mainstream media, very few of us would ever find out about it. We live in a different world now and mainstream media is quickly becoming irrelevant.
Very true.
To: SamAdams76
And I am glad for it. That's the thing I like so much about FR.
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posted on
11/21/2005 7:00:17 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: SamAdams76
It should be mentioned that it was the bloggers that brought all this out in the open and forced Sony to withdraw the CDs. Somebody ought to put up a "Blogosphere Trophy Wall" with Photoshopped stuffed heads and appropriate quote plaques:
Dan Rather, SeeBS Anchor: "F*ck 'Em All."
Mary Mapes, SeeBS Producer: "I relied on the information, not the authentication."
Thomas Hesse, Sony Division President: "Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
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posted on
11/22/2005 6:57:02 AM PST
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: backhoe; JoJo Gunn; Blood of Tyrants; Amerigomag; Paul C. Jesup; Cyber Liberty; supercat; metmom; ..
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posted on
11/22/2005 7:00:13 AM PST
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: SamAdams76
MSM is irrelevant because the colleges and universities that produce the new journalists are not teaching them. I believe that MSM is not so much anti America as they are just stupid. The more I read and watch the MSM the more I understand the depth of their stupidity.
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posted on
11/22/2005 8:30:27 AM PST
by
unseen
To: steve-b
Appreciate the link- thank you.
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posted on
11/22/2005 8:41:44 AM PST
by
backhoe
(The Silence of the Tom's ( Tired Old Media... ))
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