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Re: First Virus found that uses Sony Rootkit...
I can't believe that Sony was this far out of step with its consumer market and technology. What software product doesn't get analyzed up the whazoo anymore when its releases, did they think that no one would notice and second did they think that no one would mind? I can only imagine the backlash this is going to have as consumer trust in Sony takes a hit.
Now of course I'm sure that others had similar products ready for release and now that Sony has taken a pounding over theirs I'm betting there are all sort of companies racing back to the drawing boards.
Now that a Virus has been released that takes advantage of their product to further compromise a system, Sony's reputation will get thumped even further (think what the news headlines are going to read like), but it really makes me wonder just how insane Sony really is, I mean again you have to know that hackers are out there, and yes they would certainly love to take advantage of a preinstalled root kit on a large number of client systems, duh. I'm betting more then a couple heads are going to roll over this disaster and so they should.
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NyQuil Kid
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| said by Link Logger  :I can't believe that Sony was this far out of step with its consumer market and technology... I can; usually it's the result of pressure from marketing people who haven't the faintest idea how a computer works.
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aquias0
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| I found this link highly interesting
»www.amazon.com/gp/product/custom···m02/ref=
It appears that consumers are really willing to "take the fight" to Sony on this one.
By the by, the link came from Alex Eck's Sunbelt blog (»sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/) |
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| wow, the reviews are literally pouring in on that one (and i imagine any other sony cds). I tell you, my trust in Sony anything has been weakened by this episode.
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said by Link Logger :I can't believe that Sony was this far out of step with its consumer market and technology. It's looking like Sony's been headed this direction since 2001.
»blogs.washingtonpost.com/securit···rne.html
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Sony's Attitude Has a History
Sony CEO Howard Stringer, who kept the audience laughing throughout the night with a battery of quips, said, “Right now it would be possible for us, and I’ve often thought it would cheer me up to do it, you could dispatch a virus to anybody whose files contain us or Columbia records
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