krease 0 Report post Posted November 7, 2005 Seems the copy protection software the Sony is using essentially behaves like a virus: it pretends its from somewhere else, cloaks itself from the OS, scans your system processes, contact's Sony's webpage, and may crash your system... Sony has gone and pretty much released a rootkit on their music CDs. http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/s...tal-rights.html Follow up to the rootkit. http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/11/m...decloaking.html And already some one is using the rootkit to cheat at WoW. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/04/secfocus_wow_bot/ Basically the gist of it is Sony installs a rootkit on Windows PCs that hides files from the operating system that begin with $sys$. Apparently it does some nasty things with the 64bit version of Windows XP as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Vitamin X Report post Posted November 7, 2005 Fuck Sony. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slayer 0 Report post Posted November 7, 2005 This is why the "fantasy" of an all-digital-medium (as put forth by big media companies) concerns me greatly Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
krease 0 Report post Posted November 7, 2005 The BBC has picked up the story as well: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4400148.stm It's a bit easier of a read for those a little less technically inclined... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
