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Originally posted by wellard:
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Originally posted by Harkoliar:
5. Sony BMG Music CDs (2005)
When you stick a music CD into your computer, you shouldn't have to worry that it will turn your PC into a hacker's plaything. But that's exactly what Sony BMG Music Entertainment's music discs did in 2005. The discs' harebrained copy protection software installed a rootkit that made it invisible even to antispyware or antivirus software. Any moderately clever cyber attacker could then use the same rootkit to hide, say, a keylogger to capture your bank account information, or a remote-access Trojan to turn your PC into a zombie.
Security researcher Dan Kaminsky estimated that more than half a million machines were infected by the rootkit. After first downplaying the problem and then issuing a "fix" that made things worse, Sony BMG offered to refund users' money and replace the faulty discs. Since then, the record company has been sued up the wazoo; a federal court judge recently approved a settlement in the national class action suit. Making your machine totally vulnerable to attacks--isn't that Microsoft's job?
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And I have never bought a sony product since. Does anyone know what is happining with this problem. Do you have to download a fix every time you play a sony cd? [/QUOTE]At my store the CDs were recalled and nearly the entire Sony/BMG 4th quarter new release schedule was pushed back to print new CDs. I hope those bastards learned the lesson.