well theres some rootkit killers under my perfectly safe from viruses blah blah ect all free things but 1 word really gets rid of my rootkit problems..... EWIDO (ps infinate scans, 14 day trial is only limitation but that just stops updates and on access protection ) get it at www.ewido.com get her or urself to download it

nvm about the perfectly safe from all viruses... an imature guy "self proclaimed spyware expert" started nagging at me for his own fault... he tattled on me for minor vulger and now my post is gone.... tell him thnx if you know him.. its Lord of the Rings haha thats him ... XD

Actually, this HAPPENED, and that's why Sony/BMG are sued!

They installed their rootkit, even if you rejected their EULA. Not only you could not play the CD, but the rootkit was installed, and then opened a listening port that HAS been exploited by remote virus and PC hijackers.

Then Sony released a "fix" that was even worse and less secured than the rootkit initially present on the CD. By installing the "fix", younot only removed the rootkit, but you agreed with its EULA that states that you use the fix at your own risk. Sony wants to convince you that it is notresponsible, but it forgets to say that the fix it proposes actually installs a new software that will wait for instructions from ANY source in the Internet.

This "fix" (actually an ActiveX component) was ALSO used by virus and PC hijackers.

The Sony/BMG even is the worst thing that happened in the media industry. It demonstrates that the DRM technology it defends is not safe, not developed according to basic security standards, and that these media actually lie in their licences, lie to their legitimate customers, and spy on them illegally.

The effect of this is that now many organizations have banned ALL music CDs on work places (or have removed CD/DVD players from their workstations, and now also remove floppies, disconnect the USB and Firewire ports, disable PCMCIA ports on notebooks, password protect the BIOS to apply these restrictions).

The only way to save your work is now via the private LAN (when it works, and the system admin is effectively doing his work to change the storage tapes. You can't save multiple times during day, and every one now depends on a single system admin(whose work and competence is supposed to be always better, safer and faster than yours).

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GOOD, sony had it coming...
i herd that a fiew months ago the RIAA got sued for rakettering and conspericay or somthing..is that true?


but?...i can see why a ban on all music cds on business/school computers would be a good idia now, or , maybe more resonalbly all recent sony CDs and or all the CDA-CDROM combo discs, but why would they disdable everybodys cd burners/floppys and usb/firewire ports and not let anybody save any of there work? what dose that have to do with sonys BS?

and isent there a patch out now that makes your computer immune to sonys rootkit? ...patching seems more reasonable than ripping out everybodys cd drive...

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This just means that media producers have nowbecome non trustable for computing. CDA until now was considered harmless because it was assumed that mass producersof these CDs would not violate the confidence of their customers using unfair practices. But now, they are considered as much untrustable as any roguesoftware maker. And companies do not have the tools to control the legality of licences for medias.

What is worse is that these rootkits arereally softwares installed without being visible in software licencing control systems. The whole computing system becomes untrustable because it becomes impossible to know exactly what is running on it and if it's legal or not. So companies are placed at risk of false alarms for alleged copyright violations, without the most basic tools to verify the claims. This is where Sony/BMG may be sued for racketing (due to unverifiable claims). But I don't know if such action has occured anywhere.

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I already have the AVG Anti-Root Kit and AVG AV - the AV has gotten a lot better than the old editions and the anti-root kit updates and runs tests on your schedule. It works in the background and don't even know it's testing. I recommend it.

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wow it seems pretty weired to me that the majority of rootkits and virus infections stem from peer to peer file sharing networks but yet still people carry on using them dont get me wrong i myself can not live without LIMEWIRE lol and so far i have had the good fortune of avoiding infection.

I've been using gnutella since the day Justin invented the thing and haven't regretted it, but then I
hunt down and capture hundreds of the critters every day on purpose. ;]

I find P2P to be no more dangerous than the newsgroups. The real dangerous places are still
email spam and rogue web sites. You can get infected just by reading a message or by going to a
web site.