This doesn't look so good to me and is a scary thought.

This is a few days old but for those who haven't read it yet, here is part of the story from CNET Reviews;

Dan Kaminsky, a frequent speaker at Black Hat, has done some fascinating research into Domain Name Service servers and related security threats potential to them.

Kaminsky started with a very basic premise: Sony has a root kit; all root kits phone home; phoning home requires a DNS query; DNS queries are cached. From this simple theory, Kaminsky was able to query roughly 3 million Domain Name Service servers to find traces or signatures of Sony root kits calling from their desktop and laptop PC clients back home to Sony (or some other agency) host servers. He didn't find a few thousand, nor a hundred thousand. Kaminsky found roughly 568,200 DNS servers that have signatures of the Sony root kit calling home. He states that from this figure, he can't conclusively determine how many hosts that translates into--only Sony and First4Internet know that number.

Read more here at CNET;
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3513_7-6388181-1.html?tag=nl.e757

I'm not ignorant, I just need more learning!

http://www.techsupportalert.com/issues/al_current.htm

3.7 Sony Using Rootkit in Music CD DRM
This story whipped up a storm during the month after PC SysInternals Mark Russinovich discovered a rootkit installed by a Sony copy protected audio CD. "Not only had Sony put software on my system that uses techniques commonly used by malware to mask its presence, the software is poorly written and provides no means for uninstall. Worse, most users that stumble across the cloaked files with a RKR scan will cripple their computer if they attempt the obvious step of deleting the cloaked files." Sony initially tried to defend their software but finally caved in and announced they would suspend the copy protection scheme. Several security vendors have released removal tools including Microsoft who will include that capability in the their Malicious Software Removal Tool distributed via the Windows Update service.

http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html

Sony has since released info on how to "un-hide" thier stupid program, and has suspended delivery/sales of affected media, but as of yet, no way to uninstall it.

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