>>Short answer is yes. There is already a virus in the wild...
For Windows, yes. For BSD, no.
The scenario described was on a BSD (OS X) system, and its my understanding
that no virus exists...yet....
Ken Elliott
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From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of jeff
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 3:18 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Sony-BM Rootkit:
On Sunday 13 November 2005 02:42 pm, Ken Elliott wrote:
> >>The question is: under either one of these scenarios, could a
> >>serious
>>> hacker install a rootkit, and how?
>
> The rootkit is _already_ installed. When you loaded the Sony
> Software, you installed it. So, the real question becomes: what does
> that rootkit do? Can a hacker take advantage of it? Can a web page or
> email containing JavaScript (or other such) trigger the Sony rootkit
> to do something unexpected/undesired?
Short answer is yes. There is already a virus in the wild that takes
advantage of the Sony rootkit.
Jeff
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