Sony uses blackhat style rootkit in its DRM
Sony uses blackhat style rootkit in its DRM
Source: Mark Russinovich's blog at Sysinternals Mark Russinovich, a software specialist from Sysinternals.com, got some real nasty software installed into his PC after playing a Sony music CD in it. The software captured the root level control of his computer with methods used by malicious hackers for controlling their armies of compromised 'zombie computers'. It took some serious detective work and professional skills from him to get rid of this sneakily installed malware that would have compromised both the security and the efficiency of his PC in unpredictable ways. Quote:
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...as if i needed another reason not to buy cd's... :CG:
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wont be running any sony cds in xp myself ever again..
i wonder if a windows user with only user privileges would be affected in the same way when they put one of these cd's in i have set up a few xp installs like this now and seem to be the safest way to have windows using the run as... to run adminsitrator level stuff ,make system changes etc.. maybe just a side effect of running linux...:) they are making the ripped and shared versions of the songs sound much more appealing..this sort of spyware crap is reason to get people angry so some will upload the songs..that maybe never shared anything ever before just because they will find this shit and get pissed off.. |
I used that F-Secure tool and it found 82 hidden files, 80 of them in a folder Windows says doesn't exist (I guess that's the whole point). The thing is that I don't know which files I should worry about, if any. Does anyone have an idea to find out which files to remove?
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The story has already found its way to Washington Post and seems to be making ever bigger waves:
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just when the endless discussions with copyright nuts begin to exhaust the reasons for not buying content, sony’s arrogant executives lash out with the most persuasive argument yet: loading a store-bought cd running this program is so sinister sony simply must expect reasonable people to swap their songs instead of buying them.
i will happily oblige. i trust you will too. - js. |
PCWorld takes a similar stand on it:
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- a van Zant album from Amazon: $ 14.99 - spending 2 hours of your time trying to figure out how to get the music into your iPod: $ 100.00 - spending 3 hours of your time trying to figure out the new security risks of music CDs: $ 150.00 - having your CD drive rendered useless while trying to get rid of Sony's rootkit: priceless |
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