47 infected Sony CDs (and counting!)

[hulibecker]

None for me!

Feel sorry for any artisits on Sony label now, cos for sure this will affect sales of Sony Music now. I now me for one at least will be a bit more cautious.

Maybe now buy online instead!

[SaLiVa]

I think this is appropriate:

"Thank God for the internet!!!".

[Crichton]

And what's even better is that Sonys' web based uninstaller makes your machine vulnerable so that a web page can download to your machine. GJ SONY!!!

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=927

[joshpo]

I posted this on another similar topic:

The list above includes some CDs that have DRM but not from XCP. Not as bad but you might want to avoid them too. Also everyone should really turn off autoplay for all their drives. It is a huge security risk and with autoplay off you could pop any of those discs in and rip away.

I would also encourage anyone who is willing to boycott. Customers need to stand up to crap like this. I have been boycotting all RIAA labels for over 2 years. If you're not up to that challenge you could boycott Sony, or anything with DRM in it even.

SUCK FONY

[lnmnky]

Some of these albums are quite old. Why has the issue only just come up?

How can I check a sony cd before I play it on my PC?

[ShaneSparky_YYZ]

I don't have any of those cd's, and I don't plan on buying any of them after hearin this :) Instead i'll download :devil:

[Fred Derf Veteran]

I have in your honour, but I dont think this malware **** was present on the CD's pressed in Australia. Maybe I'm wrong, but the removal software didnt detect anything

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The XCP software was only used on CDs sold in the US.

[chrisgeleven]

I can confirm that the Foo Fighters: In Your Honor cd does install something. I'm not sure if it is this rootkit or perhaps an earlier version, but my brother played that CD and he couldn't rip it afterwards. Did some research and it apparently installs a CD device driver. Sounds familar? Had to wipe his computer off since I couldn't figure out how to get that driver off.

Some of these albums are quite old. Why has the issue only just come up?

How can I check a sony cd before I play it on my PC?

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Probably because with a rootkit, it is impossible to detect without RootKit Revealer.

http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/rootkitrevealer.html

Nevermind that a fairly small group of CD's have this to begin with and I wager most of those who bought the CD's have no clue on computers.

The best way to prevent this (other then not using Sony cd's)? Disable autoplay. Without that, the Sony Rootkit cannot install.

[jokeripa]

Go Sony! What a way to persuade MORE people to pirate!!

:pinch:

[rootwiler]

haven't bought a CD in a long time and since this "rootkit" and crap came out, I won't be buying CD's for a LONG time.

[mgleason007]

How can I check a sony cd before I play it on my PC?

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Don't buy any Sony CD's. :whistle:

[Tommy2k4]

SUCK FONY

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:laugh: Down with DRM!

[Steffan]

I was going to get the Montgomery Gentry cd. oh well...I'm off to find a "source" or get it from itunes.

[Sammyinnit]

Trust Microsoft.

[ZZOOzzoo]

As I said in the other thread, this should set precedent for other record companies that are trying to come up with all those wacky "protection" technologies that only encourages piracy. Record companies should be shooting down on piracy, not punish their honest customers to compensate for the decline of their business.

Piracy and nanny-ish record companies.. they all should be gone.

[Pink Floyd Veteran]

I dont really care since I only listen CDs in my HK

[MrCobra]

Stop buying Sony CD's and the problem will all be over soon!!

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I think everyone should stop buying Sony products and soon Sony will be over.

[sdb815]

Don't have any of those. :cool:

[Cast Iron Leader]

If your unsure whether or not you have a PC that is infected with this rootkit exploit then you do not need to download anything in order to find out if a PC is infected. Just create a new file of any type on your desktop and name it '$SYS$anything.*' - so if you create a blank text file named anything.txt and then rename it to $SYS$anything.txt and if it disappears the instant you complete the rename you have the infection because only files and registry entrys that start with $SYS$ are hidden by the rootkit.

[Sandor]

Piracy FTW.

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in this case, YES!

[Toastyone]

Don't have any of those. :cool:

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:p same :cool:

[John S. Veteran]

I've got the new Switchfoot, but Sony's little ploy did nothing to stop iTunes from ripping with my iMac :D

[Englishkid]

Meh limwire is da bomb hehe stupid sony

[Purple Haze]

I have the Foo Fighters CD but didn't have any trouble ripping it to my PC w/ autoplay off and using CDex.

[y0sh]

Piracy FTW.

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Truely.

I have:

Foo Fighters - In Your Honor

Acceptance - Phantoms

Though, I never ripped from the CD. I downloaded the CDs while I was waiting for those to arrive.