http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,69601,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 "Sony claimed the rootkit didn't phone home when it did. On Nov. 4, Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG's president of global digital business, demonstrated the company's disdain for its customers when he said, "Most people don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?" "This drama is also about incompetence. Sony's latest rootkit-removal tool actually leaves a gaping vulnerability".. "The rootkit has even been found on computers run by the Department of Defense, to the Department of Homeland Security's displeasure" "estimates are that more than half a million computers worldwide are infected with this Sony rootkit. Those are amazing infection numbers, making this one of the most serious internet epidemics of all time -- on a par with worms like Blaster, Slammer, Code Red and Nimda" "worse than not detecting it ..was the deafening silence that followed. When a new piece of malware is found, security companies fall over themselves to clean our computers and inoculate our networks. Not in this case" "The only thing that makes this rootkit legitimate is that a multinational corporation put it on your computer, not a criminal organization" "Perhaps the only security company that deserves praise is F-Secure, the first and the loudest critic of Sony's actions. And Sysinternals, of course.." "What happens when the creators of malware collude with the very companies we hire to protect us from that malware?" k
