47 infected Sony CDs (and counting!)

By E t h a n
in Back Page News

 Share

How many do you have?  

119 members have voted

  1. 1. How many do you have?

    • 0
      94
    • 1
      10
    • 2
      6
    • 3
      2
    • 4-6
      3
    • 7-10
      1
    • 11-15
      0
    • 16-25
      0
    • 26-46
      0
    • 47 (or more!)
      3

Recommended Posts

Proficient

joshpo

Posted
Posted

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

Grand Master

Fred Derf Veteran

Posted
  • Veteran
Posted
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

586812702[/snapback]

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

chrisgeleven

Posted
Posted

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?

586813315[/snapback]

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.

Grand Master

ZZOOzzoo

Posted
Posted

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.

Explorer

Cast Iron Leader

Posted
Posted

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.

This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.