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- Sony rootkit settlement gets final nod
- so what now?"Electronic Frontier Foundation Legal Director Cindy Cohn ... urged anyone in possession of the offending CDs to stake their claims against Sony"Yeah? How? I looked at the linked PDF file, 49 pages of Sanskrit.What about MP3 players?In Australia, the copyright laws have recently changed to allow the copying...
- Tags: Sony Corp., CD, sony bmg rootkit, frylock, it management, Sony rootkit settlement, Google Inc., MP3, MP3 player, rootkit
- Discussion threads 2006-05-23
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- Sony-BMG Blog site now GONE...
- On Friday 12.09.2005 when I last checked the Sony BMG blog site regarding the announcement of the software to remove the Sony "rootkit" I mean Copy Protection "software"... was up. I checked for it today....GONE. What's nearly as hard to find: (for casual browsers...) The page that contains the download...
- Tags: Bertelsmann Music Group, blog, Mr. Tinker, network security, security, software, Sony Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-12-14
- Sony BMG passes the buck
- You may all remember the Sony BMG rootkit saga back in 2005. In order to protect music CD's Sony started shipping them with software designed to stop the content from being copied. The software which has widely been dubbed as a ‘rootkit' and ‘spyware' installed itself on computers...
- Tags: security, General, antivirus
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Sony BMG to pay penalties, consumers in rootkit deal
- $175got off cheap then didn't they.Won't touch them either, I bet they've several top boffins researching how to get away with it next time.YAAAY!However, Sony still has a long way to go before I'll trust them again. Right now, my mindset
- Tags: feedback, Zeppo9191, Sony Corp., Sony BMG Music Entertainment, rootkit
- Discussion threads 2006-12-20
- Rootkit redux: Sony doesn't learn from history
- I WOULD THINK TWICE BEFORE SLAMMING SONYThe 'software company' tells you what you need to do,you check with your legal team,and then do it.Somebody has to have a truth sensing ability because the computer industry is loaded with lies.That's OK I haveI don't buy their stuff.Me neither.Two public rootkit fiascoes...
- Tags: Rootkits, PRODUCTIVITY, BALTHOR, rootkit, Sony Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-30
- Rootkit redux: Sony doesn't learn from history
- Remember the Sony/BMG rootkit scandal in 2005? It was all over the news how Sony/BMG was distributing rootkits with its DRM software on legitimately purchased music CDs. Of course, Sony eventually played the "left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing" card and blamed it all on some...
- Tags: Software, Sony Corp., Digital-rights Management, Rootkit, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2007-08-30
- Can my computer get infected from running an audio CD?
- I have windows XP with AVG antivirus up to date and ad-aware, spybot and microsoft antispyware. I got music and spoken word CD's from a person I do not know very well. I wish to only run these CD's, and not to download or save anything. If I hold down...
- Tags: audio CD, CD, computer, mikelapon@..., rootkit, security
- Discussion threads 2006-01-19
- A Week of Controversy
- Another day, another week, another thread to concoct and concept. Last week was a crazy one for the TechRepublic and CNET crews concerning Sony BMG Music Entertainment, and its parent company, Sony Corporation.The threaded blog sphere lit up concerning the "rootkit" implanted in select compact discs albums that Sony...
- Tags: anti-piracy, antivirus, CD, Microsoft Windows, rootkit, sony, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Sony Corp., swgoldwire2546, windows
- Discussion threads 2005-11-15
- Rootkits: Digital Rights Management, Spyware, and Security
- Sony-BMG and other record companies face some hard decisions. The Internet is transforming the distribution and promotion of music, and the industry is searching intently for new business models. Many in the industry see DRM as part of the industry's future. For these DRM advocates, Sony-BMG's misadventures with CD copy...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Internet, Bertelsmann Music Group, CD, Digital-rights Management, Industry, Rootkit, Spyware, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2006-01-23
- Something Pfishy at Sony?
- Being the professionally paranoid individual anyone has to be if they started programming computers in the early 1960Â’s and is still in the field, not to mention having been a high-tech reporter since before IBM shipped the first IBM-PC, I have been watching the Sony DRM saga unfold with great...
- Tags: CD, Sony Corp., SunnComm MediaMax
- Blog posts 2005-12-12
- A tough year for security
- 2005--ItÂ’s almost over and what a tough year it was for bothnetwork administrators and end users in terms of security. Leaks of financial data left over 50 millionaccounts open for exploitation, phishing attacks have been steadily increasingand bot nets have continued to grow.While worm attacks have subsided we are...
- Tags: ItÂ, security
- Blog posts 2005-12-30
- The Sony BMG Controversy, Plus a Website Launch
- I read somewhere in ZDNet that the XCP copy-restriction software that has the "rootkit" in it that Sony BMG Music Entertainment and First4Internet has put into the CD albums Sony plans to recall, has some measure of the open-source code from LAME. How weird! Now this whole controversial...
- Tags: feedback, internet, macromedia, microsoft, sony, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, swgoldwire2546, Web site, website, xara
- Discussion threads 2005-11-23
- New spyware claim against Sony BMG
- GOOD for Texas and all other entities sueing Sony, BUT...Sony is ONLY the tip of the iceburg.THIS is a list of all RIAA members: http://www.riaa.com/about/members/default.asp They ALL need to be boycotted because the RIAA needs to be put OUT of business!!!!!Cruise around that site and see what evil they are...
- Tags: btljooz, drm, RIAA, rootkits, security, sony, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Sony Corp., spyware
- Discussion threads 2005-12-22
- sony rootkit question
- Does the sony rootkit move across a network?We know of 2 computers here in the IT dept, that have the problem thru our own fault, but I've just found it on a machine that is in a secured room and only used a few times a week. Any thoughts??ThanksTimFrom...
- Tags: rootkit, TABComputers2002, sony rootkit
- Q&A 2005-12-30
- What makes a rootkit?
- Don´t buy SonyIf that is the way Sony treats its customers, I have only one thing to do: I will not buy any more Sony products. If CDs are flawed, every other product may be flawed too. Do the same.A Silver Lining?I have a similar reaction to the idea...
- Tags: don´t buy sony., if you don´t want spyware, rootkit, security, segbar@..., Sony Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-11-21
- removing xcp.sony.rootkit
- I am not able to remove this trojan with yahoo anti-spy..I've ran avast, it doesn't detect it, I ran avg anti-rootkit free...but it still shows up on the yahoo anti-spy scan and it won't delete..help, please...any help appreciated...thanks kt
- Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, katiecasey64@...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-11
- Vulnerabilities found in Sony Ericsson phones
- ANYone who patronizes Sony's products deserve what they get!After Sony's Rootkit fiaso???... BOYCOTT ANYTHING SONY, etc.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Vote with $$$$$$$$$$$$ like the Big companies do with our politician$. That's the ONLY way they'll get the clue we're NOT going to take their underhanded ways laying down;)Boycott not ONLY Sony, but ALSO their...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Boycott, sony, Sony Ericsson Phones, btljooz, security, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, telephone
- Discussion threads 2006-02-11
- Guard against Sony's surreptitious rootkit
- Sony BMG has made headlines after the discovery of the clandestine rootkit included on many of its CDs. What's all the commotion about? In this edition of Security Solutions, Mike Mullins delves into this contentious issue. More than nine months ago, Sony BMG began distributing select CD labels...
- Tags: Sony Corp., CD, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, Spyware, adware & malware, Michael Mullins CCNA, MCP, rootkit, software, computer, Security Solutions Newsletter, Microsoft Corp., Mike Mullins, Tools & Techniques, Security, Management, Michael \"Mullins CCNA, MCP\"
- Technical articles 2005-12-01
- Did Sony 'rootkit' pluck from open source?
- Robbing Peter to rob PaulQUOTESony BMG, which also declined to comment, has positioned itself as a defender of artists' rights.It re-emphasized last week that copy-protection software is an "important tool to protect our intellectual property rights and those of our artists."/QUOTESo it's okay for Sony to steal other people's software,...
- Tags: dmca, GPL, lame, nighthawk808, open source, rootkit, rootkits, security, Sony Corp., sony is almost as stupid as bush
- Discussion threads 2005-11-19
- Sony BMG passes the buck
- I think they both deserve what they get.Sony deserved every bit of the backlash it got by trying to screw the consumer out of fair use of a purchased product. Hopefully they'll lose the lawsuit too.As far as the folks that wrote the software, well, I hope they can...
- Tags: prplshroud, Sony BMG Music Entertainment
- Discussion threads 2007-07-16
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