More on Sony's rootkit

[mdlbear]

I'm having trouble keeping up, but here's a second installment of BoingBoing's rootkit roundup. And for good measure, here's an analysis piece on Slyck News. Slyck appears to be a file-sharing news site.

Sony-BMG has managed to accomplish in 16 days what bloggers, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, writers, journalists, and niche sites have been working on for years. Sony-BMG has destroyed the music and movie industry's arguments against P2P, and brought mainstream attention and public distaste to the DRM debate.

Comments

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

Good coverage over on Bruce Schneier's blog, [http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/11/sonys_drm_rootk.html], over at The Register, [http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/11/17/sony_drm_uninstaller_peril/]. How to flush out the rootkit on Windows systems over at Sysinternals [http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/11/sony-no-more-rootkit-for-now.html].

And here we a report of a virus which takes advantage of the rootkit's cloaking feature [http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/11/10/sony_drm_trojan/].

...but still no word on the Mac version.