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Old 11-13-2005, 11:17 PM   #35
T-D-C
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Join Date: October 26, 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Quote:
Originally posted by shamrock_uk:
The first trojan horse to take advantage of Sony's rootkit has been found in the wild.
Yeah I saw an internal alert here this morning about the increased submissions of this varient in the wilds using this technology.

Sony could be in for a world of hurt.

EDIT: Looks like Sony have released a service pack to allow customers who have it installed to remove the rootkit.

http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/updates.html

[ 11-14-2005, 01:16 AM: Message edited by: T-D-C ]
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