47 infected Sony CDs (and counting!)


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Here is the most up-to-date list from here:

Foo Fighters - In Your Honour

Van Zant - Get Right with the Man

Ricky Martin - Life

Sarah McLachlan - Bloom Remix Album

Celine Dion - On Ne Change Pas

Neil Diamond - 12 Songs

Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten

Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak

Santana - All That I Am

Chris Botti - To Love Again

Switchfoot - Nothing Is Sound

Patty Loveless - Dreamin' My Dreams

Montgomery Gentry - Something To Be Proud Of: The Best of 1999-2005

Mary Mary - Mary Mary

My Morning Jacket - Z

David Gray - Life In Slow Motion

Bob Brookmeyer - Bob Brookmeyer & Friends

Shelly Fairchild - Ride

Kasabian - Kasbian

Pete Seeger - The Essential Pete Seeger

The Bad Plus - Suspicious Activity

Elkland - Golden

Susie Suh - Susie Suh

Buddy Jewel - Times Like These

Chayanne - Cautivo

A Static Lullaby - Faso Latido

Our Lady Peace - Healthy In Paranoid Times

The Coral - The Invisible Invasion

Dexter Gordon - Manhattan Symphonie

Acceptance - Phantoms

Dion - The Essential Dion

The Dead 60s - The Dead 60s

Goapele - Change It All

Los Lonely Boys - TBD

Life of Agony - Broken Valley

George Jones - My Very Special Guests

Horace Silver - Silver's Blue

Amici Forever - Defined

Ahmed Jamal - The Legendary Okeh and Epic Recordings

Anna Nalick - Wreck of the Day

Hitch - Soundtrack

Charlotte Martin - On Your Shore

Vivian Green - Vivian

Raheem DeVaughn - The Love Experience

Amerie - Touch

Nivea - Complicated

Mario - Turning Point

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can normal AV and spyware programs detect this crap they are putting on our cd's? if not...how would i be able to tell?

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Microsoft is going to include detection and removal of this Sony malware soon in their Anti-Spyware definitions.

Also, they are going to include it in the December Malicious Software Removal Tool.

im utterly disgusted at sonys contempt for peoples computers. They had no right to hide this rookit crap on peoples music :no: i hope sony go bust to be honest :happy: ive never bought a sony cd and im not gonna start :crazy: im glad i buy music online and not on CD :yes:

I don't own many Sony CDs, thankfully I haven't bought one since early 2004 but after this fiasco I'm not going to buy a single Sony CD ever again and I'm going to encourage people to do the same, even if they have removed the protection now they just did to save their sorry behinds.

I'll never buy any cds from Sony from now on. Thjs rootkit installation is a private life invasion that no one at Sony would like to have on their own computer. And not telling the customer about that a rootkit installation on pc IS pretty like spyware. Good thing that Microsoft is aware of this and release a removal tool. We should globally sue Sony or at least boycott their products.

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