Sony's rootkit DRM is also spyware
Mark Russinovich, the SysInternals guy who revealed Sony's rootkit to the world, has kept digging deeper into Sony's DRM. Now he has been able to verify that Sony's DRM also has a call-home feature which secretly reports back to Sony every time a DRM-protected CD is played in a computer, allowing Sony to track precisely which CDs are being played in which IP numbers. In other words, the DRM software was not only designed to take root level control of the computer - it was also designed to serve as well-cloaked spyware.
From Mark's blog: Quote:
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CD's with rootkit
Trey Anastasio, Shine (Columbia) Celine Dion, On ne Change Pas (Epic) Neil Diamond, 12 Songs (Columbia) Our Lady Peace, Healthy in Paranoid Times (Columbia) Chris Botti, To Love Again (Columbia) Van Zant, Get Right with the Man (Columbia) Switchfoot, Nothing is Sound (Columbia) The Coral, The Invisible Invasion (Columbia) Acceptance, Phantoms (Columbia) Susie Suh, Susie Suh (Epic) Amerie, Touch (Columbia) Life of Agony, Broken Valley (Epic) Horace Silver Quintet, Silver's Blue (Epic Legacy) Gerry Mulligan, Jeru (Columbia Legacy) Dexter Gordon, Manhattan Symphonie (Columbia Legacy) The Bad Plus, Suspicious Activity (Columbia) The Dead 60s, The Dead 60s (Epic) Dion, The Essential Dion (Columbia Legacy) Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten (Epic) Ricky Martin, Life (Columbia) (labeled as XCP, but, oddly, our disc had no protection) More info here |
LOL, Sony's buns continue to bake under heat from consumers, experts on root kit DRM debacle.
Microsoft Anti-Spyware will recognize and report Sony's DRM rootkit as spyware and (supposedly) remove it. Also to be detected and removed by Malicious Software Removal Tool. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,175649,00.html http://www.informationweek.com/story...leID=173602634 |
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