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sageridder
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I haven't seen any talk here about this yet so I wanted to make members aware of this.Apparently sony has included a stealth rootkit in the programing of music cds to protect thier copyrights.For any who don't know what this means (I Didn't) it's a hidden program that installs if you play one of these cds.It can't be removed without without severly screwing your machine (at least at the point I'm posting this).It can be abused to sidesteped any firewall and anti virus program and infect your computer.Here are some links to provide more info.
http://www.theoasisforums.com/yabbse/index.php/topic,4383.0.html
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/11/10/sony.hack.reut/index.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/10/sony_drm_trojan/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20051111/tc_pcworld/123511
I realize some of us are allready aware of this story, I just wanted to make sure members here were aware of it.
http://www.theoasisforums.com/yabbse/index.php/topic,4383.0.html
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/11/10/sony.hack.reut/index.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/10/sony_drm_trojan/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20051111/tc_pcworld/123511
I realize some of us are allready aware of this story, I just wanted to make sure members here were aware of it.