Oh.. you Sony fans (I'm kidding) are going to love this one.
Another rootkit fiasco was washed up on Sony's shores once again. This time it's coming from the 'Micro Vault flash drive' that comes with finger print verification. It comes in the form of a driver that is installed to hide the finger print verification "sensitive files" in Windows file system stack.
The problem is that it will hide its self in ANY directory the software is run from, so malware could easily move to a convenient directory, or hide within the default program directory itself. And if that's the case, no anti-malware would be able to detect it.
Sony is pointing the finger at the company who created the software, a Taiwanese company called 'FineArt'. But Sony should have known what they're putting their name on, considering some of the other rootkit issues they've had.
Another Sony rootkit worms its way to the surface [Arstechnica via Crunchgear]
