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F00k, now even SONY is installing spyware/malware on your computer:

http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/1 ... ights.html


And they wonder why we're adverse to buying their products

Sony's response to this? Here's a tool to get rid of it:

http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/updates.html

Yeah, I'm gonna go install an ActiveX control from the company who made the rootkit

Sounds like someone is trying to avoid a lawsuit. On a side note, if i release a root kit then publish a web page that says it is not dangerous, am i safe from prosecution ? lol

No, you're not a huge corporation. Start a power hungry company and then you're set.

Apparently, it also "phones home" to Sony and gives the unique i.d. number on the cd to them:

http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/1 ... aking.html

It's in Italian, but a lawyer is going to sue Sony for this under the EU consumer laws:

http://www.lastknight.com/2005/11/07/so ... n-esposto/

New York and California get in on the fun:

http://music.tinfoil.net/modules.php?na ... e&sid=1357


I hope Sony fries for this one

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=4989260

The Sony exec is p!ssed that people are calling the "DRM kit" malware, spyware, or rootkit. He's even arrogant enough to go on and say:

"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it," he asked? "The software is designed to protect our CDs from unauthorized copying, ripping."

If they don't lose these lawsuits........it'll be a sad day.

First Trojan using the rootkit:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/10 ... rm_trojan/

http://slashdot.org/~xtracto/journal/121088

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004144.php


Lists of all the CD's with Sony's rootkit. There's quite a bunch.

M$ agrees:

http://news.com.com/Microsoft%20will%20 ... &subj=news

It's a rootkit and it needs to be removed.

That's pretty definitive.

Yeah, but you'll note that they don't remove all of it. Just the masking part.

no more malware

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/11/15/18 ... 72&tid=185

They've still lost me as a customer.


Granted, that's a moot point ever since Homey B bought their burner and it was a piece of sh!t