Sony DRM infects your PC
November 9th, 2005 Posted in Geek
Next time you buy a CD from Sony/BGM, you should be aware that if you put it in your computer, it quite possibly will install spyware which has been know to cause Windows “Blue Screens of Death” and leaves a monster-truck-sized security hole in your computer, to which virus and worm writers can exploit.
All of this for just trying to listen to a CD you bought legitimately. Wonderful.
Here’s a couple of articles that explain the issue a little more in-depth:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Spyware/index.php?p=698
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1882795,00.asp
…and here’s a Google News search on the topic:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=sony+drm&btnG=Search+News
November 10th, 2005 at 10:09 am
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