Thursday, December 15, 2005
Nice Post-Mortem On The Sony Rootkit Debacle
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 07:00 PM
http://www.watchguard.com/RSS/showarticle.aspx?pack=RSS.SonyDRM3
With the release of a few patches yesterday for Internet Explorer and the December version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool, Sony's infect... oops, I mean incredibly onerous method of DRM, also known as "The Rootkit", will finally start vanishing from the bit repository we call a hard drive.
WatchGuard has a nice article recapping the whole incident, from Sony's initial invasion of your system to Microsoft swooping in to kick it out. :)
With the release of a few patches yesterday for Internet Explorer and the December version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool, Sony's infect... oops, I mean incredibly onerous method of DRM, also known as "The Rootkit", will finally start vanishing from the bit repository we call a hard drive.
WatchGuard has a nice article recapping the whole incident, from Sony's initial invasion of your system to Microsoft swooping in to kick it out. :)
