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Re: Handyperson's guide to removal of SONY ROOTKIT said by dave:On the other hand, he's sure looking a lot like a drive-by poster... Yep, same canned response by a new member Sony BMG posted in a lot of other Security Forums last night.
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kudos:8 | said by CalamityJane:said by dave:On the other hand, he's sure looking a lot like a drive-by poster... Yep, same canned response by a new member Sony BMG posted in a lot of other Security Forums last night. Doesn't exactly help their blackened tarnished image does it? They don't have any feet left to shoot...
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LOL @ sonybmg  .... 
Seriously tho, whatta set of 'Stones to try and DEFEND their craptastic "uninstaller" when it's been proven to do anything but.....
Go Get 'em Kevin, make the lot of commit seppuku for their shame....:o
This says it all....
7464. SONYCODESUP
7465. SONYROOTARIES
7466. SONYROOTDRM
7467. SONYROOTDROP
7468. SONYROOTKIT9X
7469. SONYROOTKITXP
7470. SONYROOTUPG
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This user has apparently been on the site - last on 13h34m as of this typing. My assumption will be that the user is
1) Somehow authorized by the company
2) Unable or unwilling to satisfactorily address the concerns of this security and IT community.
Or,
3) Troll poster.
I lean toward believing 1) and 2) - in that case, it only tends to reinforce my doubts about this company and the quality and reliability of its products. I have other vendors I trust more and who I feel are better suited to provide my goods and services.
On the bright side, their products have provided me with some paid work. 
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WA State | said by EGeezer:This user has apparently been on the site - last on 13h34m as of this typing. My assumption will be that the user is 1) Somehow authorized by the company 2) Unable or unwilling to satisfactorily address the concerns of this security and IT community. Or, 3) Troll poster. I lean toward believing 1) and 2) IMO, Poster is an underpaid person (or persons) that has been given the task of spreading the "word" to all google responses to the search for "Sony Rootkit". This person has no answers. If anybody responds to questions regarding this thread, it will be another underpaid staffer with a new canned message. |
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Fix East | reply to Logan 5
said by Logan 5:LOL @ sonybmg .... Seriously tho, whatta set of 'Stones to try and DEFEND their craptastic "uninstaller" when it's been proven to do anything but.....Go Get 'em Kevin, make the lot of commit seppuku for their shame....:o One has to wonder, the great Sony.., drowning in shame and yet still guzzling from the cup.
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Instead of apologizing and eventually thanking people like Kevin,the Sony poster comes to tell that only their way is the "secure" one to uninstall their..."content protection"?
I am disgusted.Sony used to be one of my favourite brands.Fortunately they are not the only brand in the market and since the rootkit episode i have put it in my "avoid unless impossible do otherwise" list. |
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said by EGeezer:This user has apparently been on the site - last on 13h34m as of this typing. One visit only, according to the member info. Which is to say, the only visit they made here was the visit in which they posted their drivel in this thread. |
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I'm still waiting (patiently) for catseyenu to bring the rope!:o:p |
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said by salzan :
IMO, Poster is an underpaid person (or persons) that has been given the task of spreading the "word" to all google responses to the search for "Sony Rootkit". This person has no answers. If anybody responds to questions regarding this thread, it will be another underpaid staffer with a new canned message. I understand what you mean, but submit that anyone who is paid _anything_ is _overpaid_ by at least as much as they receive, for participating in the creation, dissemination, propagation and/or placing in a positive light,_any_ such marketing/PR prestidigitation (in other words, _lies_ of varying degrees), be it at the level of high-power, war-chest backed professional information/damage control and management "team leaders" like John Rendon or Victoria Clark (under what ever rock she presently habituates), or professional mouthpieces like S. McClellan, A. Fleischer, J. Lockhart, D. Myers, R. Ziegler, L. Speakes, or mouthpiece-stenographer-hacks like J. Miller/NYT, B. Woodward/Wash Post, Wolf Blitzer/CNN, or way down here, or on a bathroom stall wall for some swag...
There should be little doubt that SONY/BMG quickly (though not quick enough) hired a high-powered, well-connected "damage control" team. Text, along with IP and browser agent data comparisons can sometimes be illuminating in such situations, for those with access to such data.
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