Sonybmg Rootkit

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• 1. SonyBMG Rootkit By Ryan fetrow
• 2. About the virus!!!1!
  • The name of my virus!!!1! Is SonyBMG rootkit.
  • The sonybmg rootkit got its name because it was a problem found with the Sony BMG CD copy prevention.
• 3. WhAt It DiD!
  • It was a program that prevented the copying of Sony cd’s and automatically downloaded to the computer and open security holes that allowed virus onto the computer more easily.
  • It took about 3 months to fix the virus when Sony came out with a software utility that removed the rootkit component from the computer.
• 4. What it did (cont)
  • It affected around 500,000 networks.
  • You received the virus from other sources the Sony bmg rootkit just allowed virus into you computer more easily by opening security holes in windows.
• 5. Feelings about the virus!!!1!
  • This virus affected regular people along with commercial networks and anyone that used Sony bmg cd’s.
  • The writer of this rootkit wasn’t trying to make a virus he was trying to make and anti-copying program and it altered the way windows operating systems read the cd’s.
  • If you got the root kit on you computer then you would need to get the rootkit utility to remove the rootkit components.
• 6. Resourses
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Sony_BMG_CD_copy_protection_scandal
  • http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1072229
  • http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/14/sony-anticustomer-te.html