Ars Technica is reporting that an updated beta of Windows AntiSpyware released yesterday is capable of detecting and removing Sony's XCP rootkit. The capability will also be included in next month's update to Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool. If nothing else, it's interesting to see one big company label another's software "malicious," though I'm sure most would agree that it's a foregone conclusion and little love will be lost between Microsoft and Sony.Sony XCP rootkit removed by Windows AntiSpyware
Ars Technica is reporting that an updated beta of Windows AntiSpyware released yesterday is capable of detecting and removing Sony's XCP rootkit. The capability will also be included in next month's update to Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool. If nothing else, it's interesting to see one big company label another's software "malicious," though I'm sure most would agree that it's a foregone conclusion and little love will be lost between Microsoft and Sony.
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11-24-2005 @ 2:30AM
Mark said...
FINALLY. It seems like the anti-spyware and anti-virus developers were all scared for some reason to release updates that totally removed the rootkit. Really pathetic that all of them seemed to be scared of Sony, including Microsoft, until now. This should have happened WEEKS ago, people.
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11-27-2005 @ 10:41PM
Rimu said...
Contrary to what some people say ^^^^, i strongly doubt that the various anti-virus and anti-spyware vendors who failed to completely remove Sony's work did so out of some big conspiracy.
They probably just didn't know how; the damage done by the rootkit is so extensive and goes so deep into windows that only MS has the total inside knowledge to know how to get rid of it.
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