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Mark Russinovich has another article about the dangerous patch that released by SONY/BMG. He also confirms that the malware sends something back to SONY’s server. Make sure to take a look at the comment posted by XCP support. It basically says … TRUST us in everything we did.

For those of you that haven’t about this case Sony/BMG are putting a program on their CD’s that automatically installs a program called a rootkit. I am no tech expert but my understnding of a rootkit is a program that gets buried very deep into your system, is almost always untraceable except by experts and it can do nasty things to your computer.

Sony are saying it is part of their “anti-piracy� software but there is no reason to install anyhting like this so deeply into your system. They then released a half-assed unsinstall which Mark discusses in the link but it requires jumping through hoops to receive and that’s just not right.

This won’t affect Mac machines but if your a Windows user everytime you put a music CD into your computer make sure you hold down the SHIFT key as this prevents the auto-run feature and no programs will then be loaded. Once the CD is in you can then burn it or play it whenever you like,

Just another reason to get a Mac. The longer this goes on and more mainstream media pick up on it and make the general person understand it’s implications the more likely the big record companies will reisit using these kind of devious tactics to stop people from copying cd’s.

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