[OT] Sony music installs secret malware gateway

[xavier.bury at clearstream.com]

it's true about the auto-launch not helping when the cd contains malware 
(of which MS is not 
responsible - not that i commend MS on anything) but in my long long mac 
os experience,
the number of users that read manuals, eulas etc is rather dismal!!! It's 
usually install first
fix later... 

Too bad Steve didn't teach his users to read the readmes and more... 

I remember when they delivered PowerMacs 8500s and the like, the Mac boxes 
said "by
opening this seal you agree to the user license agreement". Where was the 
agreement?
In the box!!! Oops, i guess Steve can't read either!

It would be nice if religious animosities were replaced with real 
professional comments instead
of Mac this, pc that (not the first time i tell you it's not very 
professional looking for enterprise users
to read)... Instead we could work on pushing up standards in Rev's HTML 
handling and to make 
those transitions more transparent between platforms, web, rev etc...

just my 2 cents on this OT unrelated slab at pc users which is absolutely 
unrelated to rev anything.

But then again, you do enjoy it when you insert a new CD and you're 
prompted with an installation
dialog instead of having to go find the installer in the CD manually arent 
you? 

cheers
Xavier

use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com wrote on 11/11/2005 09:01:11:

> xavier.bury at clearstream.com wrote:
> > No Richard, it's not just for PCs... 
> > 
> > http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/05/11/11/064215.shtml?tid=233&tid=3
> 
> The difference at play is critical:
> 
> On a Mac the user has to at least do something explcit, while on Windows 

> unless you've specifically reconfigured your system you have no choice 
> --  simply inserting the CD triggers the auto-run which in turn triggers 

> the installation of the malware gateway.
> 
> Welcome to the joys of auto-run.
> 
> Too bad Bill doesn't simply teach his users how to open a CD instead.
> 
> 
> >><http://www.mercurynews.
> 
com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/personal_technology/13134753.htm>
> > 
> >>
> >>More at slashdot:
> >><http://slashdot.org/~xtracto/journal/121088>
> 
> 
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