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Researcher: Sony BMG "rootkit" still widespread
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-01-16

WASHINGTON D.C. -- Hundreds of thousands of networks across the globe, including many military and government networks, appear to still contain PCs with the controversial copy-protection software installed by music discs sold by media giant Sony BMG, a security researcher told attendees at the ShmooCon hacking conference this weekend.

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How to tell if you're affected 2006-01-18
Roger
Fortunately, there is a very easy test to see if a machine is affected. Create a file of any type, and rename it to something starting with "$sys$". ($sys$canary.txt seems popular.) If the file vanishes, you have been rootkitted! Since it vanishes from command line tests too, the test is easy to scr...

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