{"id":510,"date":"2005-11-01T22:13:14","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T21:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=510"},"modified":"2005-11-04T08:27:02","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T08:27:02","slug":"rootkit-with-your-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"Rootkit with your music?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, look at that. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sony.com\">Sony<\/a>, everyones favourite manufacturer of consumer electronics is a big evil corporation <a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/it\/05\/10\/31\/2016223.shtml?tid=172&#038;tid=158\">infecting your PC with badly-coded malware<\/a> without your knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;d have believed it.<\/p>\n<p>The audio CD tested in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysinternals.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html\">linked article<\/a> silently installs a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rootkit\">rootkit<\/a> that buggers up your CD-ROM driver, and then hides it&#8217;s own existence, so you can&#8217;t see it running. This is very bad, and may be illegal. The investigation was carried out by one of the guys at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysinternals.com\">sysinternals<\/a>, who are amongst the most talented windows people around.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping Sony get hauled into court good and hard.<\/p>\n<p>[update]<br \/>\nSony have now released a &#8216;service pack&#8217; that will uninstall the rootkit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, look at that. Sony, everyones favourite manufacturer of consumer electronics is a big evil corporation infecting your PC with badly-coded malware without your knowledge. Who&#8217;d have believed it. The audio CD tested in the linked article silently installs a rootkit that buggers up your CD-ROM driver, and then hides it&#8217;s own existence, so you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=510\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rootkit with your music?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}