16 November 2005

Planning to Play a Sony Music CD in your PC? Read this...

"Sony began experimenting in November 2005 with new Digital Rights Management (DRM) software on their music CDs. While created to prevent pirating of the music they sell, the software appears to have unintended negative consequences for those whose computers it is installed in. Sony installs a system-level application that effectively hides all file names from the user with specific filenames. These files are still present on the system and can be run normally, however any mention of their presence on the system is hidden from the user. This could allow authors of malicious software to use Sony's DRM software to hide their trojan horses on your computer...."
This just plain sucks. Talk about pushing people to just downloading music from the web. I mean, how can Sony justify intruding upon one's PC?

Click on the link to find out how to disable Sony Music's DRM Rootkit...