The SonyBMG rootkit was a program installed on Sony music CDs that was intended to prevent copying but ended up opening security holes that allowed viruses to infect computers more easily. It affected around 500,000 networks and took 3 months for Sony to release a removal tool. The rootkit altered the way Windows operating systems read CDs and allowed easier virus infections by opening security holes, though its creator intended it only as anti-copying software. To remove the rootkit, the Sony utility would need to be used.

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