As if things weren’t bad enough with Sony’s lovely rootkit DRM, what with it acting like spyware and everything, now virus writers are using it to cover up their work — just as was earlier predicted. The Sony software conceals filenames that start with “$sys$”, so a new variant of a trojan simply uses a similarly named file that becomes completely invisible on computers infected with the Sony rootkit.
Virus Writers Take Advantage Of Sony’s Rootkit
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// Nov 10th, 2005 // pank news
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Nov 10, 2005, 5:15 ampank says:
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Nov 10, 2005, 7:40 pmThanks.