Backstory on the SONY Rootkit Fiasco of 2005

[jedishrfu]

Dave's Garage gets into the infamous SONY Rootkit fiasco of 2005 where SONY tried to stem music piracy by installing rootkits on all windows machines who played SONY music disks exposing those machones to other vulnerabilities due to mistakes in the code:



and from wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

 

[Vanadium 50]

I think Sony still owes me a free CD. I did get the $7.50 I think.

 

[WWGD]

What do you think of Mark Russinovich's Rootkit Revealer? Do you think Norton's basic would provide similar ? I searched on YouTube only to get a suspicious link asking me to click.

 

[pbuk]

What do you think of Mark Russinovich's Rootkit Revealer?

I think it worked fine 15 years ago, but it dosn't work on any current version of Windows.

Do you think Norton's basic would provide similar ?

I think Norton, McAfee and other commercial protection software have become as obnoxious as some of the malware they are supposed to protect against. You don't need them...

I searched on YouTube only to get a suspicious link asking me to click.

...unless you are the kind of person who clicks on suspicious links.

Windows Defender and the knowledge of how to change permissions for pop-ups in whatever browser(s) you use are all you should need. If you don't trust yourself when browsing then install VirtualBox or VMWare and browse in a virtual machine.

 

[WWGD]

I think it worked fine 15 years ago, but it dosn't work on any current version of Windows.


I think Norton, McAfee and other commercial protection software have become as obnoxious as some of the malware they are supposed to protect against. You don't need them...


...unless you are the kind of person who clicks on suspicious links.

Windows Defender and the knowledge of how to change permissions for pop-ups in whatever browser(s) you use are all you should need. If you don't trust yourself when browsing then install VirtualBox or VMWare and browse in a virtual machine.

I obviously didn't click on the link. Not quite that gullible.
Edit: I bet security patches and periodic updates to Windows help too.