Thursday, December 08, 2005 | On this day:

Viruses use Sony anti-piracy CDs.

This leaves Sony in a real tangle. It was already getting bad press about its copy-protection software, and this new hack exploit will make it even worse.
- Graham Cluley, Sophos

Virus writers are exploiting Sony's controversial anti-piracy software to hide their malicious creations.

In late October Sony was found to be using stealth techniques to hide software that stopped some of its CDs being illegally copied.

Now three virus variants have been found that use the Sony software to evade detection by anti-virus programs.

Sony has apologised, saying it is working with computer security firms to address the problems.

posted by Ayush Gupta @ 10:36 AM

7 Comments:

At 9:44 PM, December 08, 2005, Blogger Siddharth Razdan said...

Have anyone of you ever written a virus ?

 
At 5:03 AM, December 09, 2005, Blogger Ayush Gupta said...

I once wrote a program (Virus, as you call it) in C++ which initiated an infinite loop of garbage values and the computer crashed instantanously.

 
At 9:19 PM, December 09, 2005, Blogger Siddharth Razdan said...

Did you tried it anywhere ?

 
At 11:55 PM, December 09, 2005, Blogger Ayush Gupta said...

I tried it on the Chip Lab computer on which I wrote it. I showed it to Pillay Sir. He laughed it off. We never heard of it again.

 
At 4:22 AM, December 10, 2005, Blogger Siddharth Razdan said...

That was a pretty breezy kinda virus . Has something invented like "Love Bug" and "Mellisa" ?

 
At 5:02 AM, December 10, 2005, Blogger Ayush Gupta said...

Dude. Dynamites are not crackers / virus programmers. If you are so interested in viruses, go and dump yourself on some search engine.

 
At 9:40 PM, December 10, 2005, Blogger Siddharth Razdan said...

I am already dumped . But dude as I am only familiar to c++ , and most of the viruses are the probuct of VB , till now I haven't got hold of something really *mind-blowing*(or precisely computer-blowing) ;-)

 

Post a Comment

<< Home