[OT] Sony music installs secret malware gateway

Peter T. Evensen pevensen at siboneylg.com
Fri Nov 11 17:38:10 EST 2005


I know it installs a RootKit, but you have to accept the EULA before it 
will.    That is my understanding.

In any case, I will be boycotting Sony in all forms in the future.

At 04:29 PM 11/11/2005, you wrote:

>On Nov 11, 2005, at 8:22 PM, Peter T. Evensen wrote:
>
>>Just a clarification: from everything I read, you have to accept
>>the Sony EULA on Windows before it will install the rootkit, so it
>>isn't automatic on Windows.  The installer automatically runs, but
>>nothing is automatically installed unless you click ok.  So the
>>problem isn't the autorun, per se.
>>
>>But the EULA doesn't disclose that modifications to your OS will be
>>made...
>
>It installs a friggin RootKit on the system!!!!!! And thats not all,
>the RootKit makes all files prefixed with $sys$ invisible to the
>average user, and that is already being exploited by Virus writers on
>the wild!!!!
>
>Also sony has some CDs installing MACINTOSH DRM MODULES, yes, people
>don't know yet if it is a rootkit like above, but it installs two
>kernel extensions on OS X... Why the hell, CD-ROMs need to install
>Kernel level extensions... beware of sony. I'll neve accept a Sony
>EULA until further notice...
>
>andre
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