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Microsoft Exec Warns of Rootkits
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=43077
ms Microsoft dedicates four staffers to analyze rootkit samples found in customer computers or on the Internet. In his presentation, Danseglio offered a list of the most wanted rootkits, adding that 90 percent of what Microsoft finds relates to Hacker Defender, a rootkit from the Czech Republic based programmer who calls himself Holy Father. The programmer charges several hundred dollars to make Gold versions of his basic rootkit.

Writing rootkits isn't a crime, but using them to hide code in a computer that's been hacked by other means is, Danseglio said. Holy Father last month indicated he's retiring from his Web site business, leading some to speculate that he's been hired for some purpose somewhere. Microsoft Exec Warns of Rootkits - NewsFactor Network Linked by shanmuga Tue May2 2006 8:18am EDT

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If your system gets infiltrated by a rootkit, you might as well just "waste the system entirely," a Microsoft official told fellow security professionals at the annual InfoSec Conference.

Rootkits that hide in Windows:

# Hacker Defender
# FU
# HE4Hook
# Vanquish
# AFX
# NT Rootkit

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How Sony became an ugly sister
sony Since this is the time of the year for pantomime, how about one for a corporate audience? It's called Sony and the Rootkit and it's a true story. It tells of how a once-great electronics company fell in with bad company, did some stupid things, was found out by a plucky band of bloggers and now is being pursued through the US courts by some avenging lawyers.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/...1669722,00.html

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Sony has again been outed for including questionable software on its music CDs, after it emerged a security vulnerability in content protection software shipped on some of its disks could allow consumers? PCs to be hijacked
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/07/sony_cd_security/

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What more does EFF want Sony BMG to do?

EFF would like Sony BMG and all record labels to stop using DRM on their CDs and stop requiring its customers to agree to a EULA as a condition of playing CDs on their computers. See: The Customer is Always Wrong, DRM Skeptics View, and New York Times Op-Ed: Buy, Play, Trade, Repeat.
http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/Sony-BMG/mediamaxfaq.php[/quote]

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AnyDVD tackles Sony DRM Rootkit Virus!
If AnyDVD is installed and active on your PC, the new so-called "Sony DRM Rootkit Virus" has no access to your system and THROUGH the affected audio CD Another good reason to get AnyDVD!

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