Online Rootkit Painting

By Jimmy Daniels
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

With all the talk of the Sony Rootkit fiasco, and some other disturbing rootkit news recently, I found this post by Wayne Porter pretty funny. He has created an online painting showing what a rootkit looks like exactly. Now, he admits he’s not much of an artist, but it’s definitely worth checking out.

Find below an Online Painting of a Sony BMG (or any) Rootkit by the painter Wayne Porter. This rootkit painting is one of the first and perhaps most famous of its kind as it resides on thousands of unsuspecting computers worldwide. The painting is 300 pixels by 300 pixels and suitable for framing. Feel free to upload it to your Cafe Press Store, coffee mugs or hang it on your wall above your PC to remind yourself how wonderful rootkits can be.

Don’t worry folks, according to some companies rootkits aren’t dangerous because you don’t know about them.Source: Revenews

We Say: I’m glad these spyware “zealots” like Wayne maintain their sense of humor, as I’m sure some of the stuff they are discovering is pretty nasty. Read below for an example.

A recently discovered worm that spreads through America Online Inc.’s instant messaging network has been linked to additional malware sent by an unidentified group in the Middle East, a security firm said Thursday.

Sdbot.add includes a Lockx.exe rootkit that hides the worm in a computer. Hackers can also use the rootkit to cloak their own malware.

FaceTime Security Labs, which identified the worm late last month, said it has found a rootkit-linked ster.exe file that contains six additional files that give the attacker the ability to upload, download, and monitor the infected host PC. Source: InformationWeek