Gee, thanks Sony!

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

IT <http://it.slashdot.org/> : Trojan Using Sony DRM Rootkit Spotted 

Posted by Zonk <http://slashdot.org/~Zonk/>  on Thursday November 10,
@12:15PM
from the gift-from-sony-to-you dept. 
 <http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=172> Security 
Analise <mailto:anaili () gmail com>  writes "The Register reports on the first
trojan  <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/10/sony_drm_trojan/> using
Sony's DRM rootkit. A newly discovered variant
<http://www.bitdefender.com/VIRUS-1000058-en--Backdoor.IRC.Snyd.A.html> of
the Breplibot trojan makes use of the way Sony's rootkit masks files whose
filenames begin with '$sys$'. This means that any files renamed this way by
the trojan are effectively invisible to the average user. The malware is
distributed via an email supposedly from a reputable business magazing
requesting that the businessperson verify his/her attached 'picture' to be
used for an upcoming issue. Once the payload is executed, the trojan then
installs an IRC backdoor on affected Windows systems." 

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