Doug Mentohl wrote:
> By Scott M. Fulton, III, BetaNews November 9, 2006, 6:03 PM
>
> The little software utility that uncovered the presence of Sony's
> stealth DRM hiding like a rootkit inside a security engineer's
> computer .. is now a Microsoft product.
>
> http://www.betanews.com/article/Rootkit_Revealer_Absorbed_by_Microsoft/1163113145
Don;t miss the following nuggets of information:
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
Also:
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/
G2 will screw the wrapping, I'm sure...
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