Microsoft Releases Sony Rootkit Hunter's Tools
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| No Source Code
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| One aspect of the Sysinternals.com Web site that did not survive
| the transition to Microsoft is the free source code that Cogswell
| and Russinovich had made available for some of their tools.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20061109/tc_pcworld/127804
This could start a trend where Open Source companies are acquired as means of
hiding their work or adding proprietary components, e.g. XenSource, SUSE.
On a related subject, Microsoft lies about the scale of damage of rootkits
(same with malware, XBox failures, market share, and 'success' or reach of
their technology).
Do 1.28 Million computers have a Rootkit?
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| So assuming like for like, the Microsoft figure of 256,000 unique
| computers with rootkits could mean, taking Symantec results into
| account, Microsoft have only found 20% of the actual number of
| computers with rootkit. Thats a staggering 1,280,000 (1.28 Million)
| computers infected with rootkits.
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http://www.antirootkit.com/blog/2006/11/04/do-128-million-computers-have-a-rootkit/
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