| Sony Installs Rootkits On Your PC | |
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Tido - Student  |
It's the holiday season. Along with Xbox 360s, I'm sure some of us might get a CD or two. If your CD is from Sony, however, you will get an extra feature: a rootkit. A rootkit is "a set of tools frequently used by an intruder after cracking a computer system. These tools are intended to conceal running processes and files or system data, which helps an intruder maintain access to a system for malicious purposes." The rootkit restricts what you can do with your own CDROM/R/RW and will corrupt Window's ability to access that drive if you attempt to remove it. Check it out More Detailed Info WoW Hackers Using Sony BMG Rootkit This post was edited by Tido on Nov 08 2005 06:17pm. |
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Senor Hat - Student 
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and the products they make arent always very good anyway _______________ I have beaten The Internet. The end guy was hard. |
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(Jedi)Obi-JK - Student 
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Yeah, I really hope people aren't just talk here. Seriously, boycott this company. Sony is not some company making products no one else can compete with. Mostly they make average overpriced electronics. _______________ Silent Bob (Kevin Smith): You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you. -Steve (Obi) |
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Bubu - Hubbub 
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Also, this. _______________ make install -not war |
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aph3x - Retired 
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gg sony |
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JavaGuy - Student 
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This will lead to big-time lawsuits. Honestly, rootkits should be considered Trojan horses, and those who distribute them should be prosecuted accordingly. Sony will probably face numerous civil lawsuits because of this...but there should be criminal charges and prison time for the decision-makers involved in this. The media makes such a big deal about Enron. Sony is causing far more economic damage in terms of raw dollars with its rootkit. The courts jump all over virus authors--as well they should--because of how many estimated billions of dollars in lost productivity they cause. Will they do the same to Sony? I doubt it. _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Ataris - Milwaukees Finest 
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First virus out now via the rootkit.. awesome stuff  Was found today at 14:00 (GMT+2)  way to go Sony -Ataris <3 _______________ [ Honorable mentions: aph3x | Milamber | Bail Hope Belouve | Jaiko D'Kana | Rosered | JediEthic | Mike/JJ/TheKing | Kensei | Dane | Gradius | Thomas Skywalker | Pink Floyd | Setementor | Steinin | Odan-Wei ] [ Owner of: MetaDust's 500th comment! | Eica's 700th comment! | Pink Floyd's 666th, 999th, 1200th and 1337th comment! | DarkRyu's 400th comment! | Redeye's 1st comment! | Cow's 1111st comment! | Rufusan's 75th comment! | Wicek's 3300th and 3400th comment! | Dash Starlight's 2000th comment! | Piccolo's 3400th comment! | Takaru's 300th comment! | Senor Hat's 900th comment! | Rytandus' 4160th comment! | The first ever awarded, the original, the one and only, Catphin Award!!1 ] "Music expresses that which can not be put in to words but can not remain silent." |
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solitude - Jedi Council 
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Hopefully this will encourage piracy and a boycott , resulting in a loss of revenue for Sony. It is unlikely to happen though. Sony disgust me. They take stupidity, and elevate it well past the art form the French took it to. n1 guys. _______________ Joined 16 October 2004 | Retired 10 April 2005 | Returned 05 June 2008 | Made Staff 27 June 2008 | Made Council 18 January 2009 Padawan To Odan-Wei Belouve | Adopted into the Belouve family | Twin to xAnAtOs | Owner of the 4th Quesi sexy badge Brother To Roan Belouve, Nomad, Majno, Silkmonkey, Kensei and Jarhok Belouve
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DarthMike - Student 
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PLAYSTATION STILL OWNZ! >.> _______________ "You can't get Windows on a Mac because the drivers are not compatible." --- Some dude from the Geek Squad "So if you have quad-core, you have four times the RAM, right?" --- Some guy at Best Buy |
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Tido - Student 
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rofl @ rootkit hiding from DRM! Here are some removal instructions: Quote: -Remove the files in WindowsSystem32$sys$filesystem using a DOS prompt. -Reboot and your CD drive will be gone, but you'll at least be able to see the registry keys that it was hiding. -Remove from the registry stuff with references to: "$sys" or aries.sys. You may need to get a copy of psexec to load regedit as the system process to delete many of these keys. Just run: psexec –s –i –d regedit.exe and then try deleting or editing them, as needed. -To reenable the CDRom drive, you want to look in HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetEnum and subfolders, and remove references to "$sys$crater" and "cor.sys", but you may not want to delete these keys entirely. Some of them may have just been added on to, so edit them and remove the words "$sys$crater" and so forth. -After rebooting, your CD will return and your system will be clean. And then you should disable autorun and never, ever, run software off a music CD. Or buy anything from Sony ever again. |
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(Jedi)Obi-JK - Student
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Quote: legally they probably will get away from it, but technically they won't. People will find a way around the rootkits and learn how to defeat them. Sony thought the PSP would be unhackable too, HA! Hahaha, thats so funny, you can actually use the Sony's rootkit to bypass itself! Quote: Matt Nikki in the comments section discovered that the DRM can be bypassed simply by renaming your favourite ripping program with "$sys$" at the start of the filename and ripping the CD using this file, which is now undetectable even by the Sony DRM. You can use the Sony rootkit itself to bypass their own DRM!" Link to full article on slashdot http://games.slashdot.org/games/05/11/07/1221209.shtml?tid=233&tid=207&tid=10 I'm sorry this is just too funny, using Sony's own methods to bypass their evil, someone needs to give that kid a cookie. _______________ Silent Bob (Kevin Smith): You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you. -Steve (Obi) |
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Tido - Student
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legally they probably will get away from it, but technically they won't. People will find a way around the rootkits and learn how to defeat them. Sony thought the PSP would be unhackable too, HA! This comment was edited by Tido on Nov 08 2005 12:53am. |
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Rinzler - Student 
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sad fact is, sony will probably get away with it because they're such a gigantic corporation that can afford to throw 5000 lawyers at anyone _______________ I fite for teh usars!1 |
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Tido - Student
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So in light of what masta just pointed out, I hope someone sues the piss outta them. |
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Masta - Jedi Council 
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Quote: I checked the EULA and saw no mention of the fact that I was agreeing to have software put on my system that I couldn't uninstall. Quote: As I’ve pointed out in press interviews related to the post, the EULA does not disclose the software’s use of cloaking or the fact that it comes with no uninstall facility. _______________ Find out more about the Jedi Academy Aurochs here and more about Masta here! Married to Kain. |
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Mindrith Pride - Student 
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rofl that just sucks  _______________ [proud owner of talions 200th, 700th,1111th coment AND 1400th , DJK's 3001th coment! , saz's 400th coment! liso's 800th coment! Kitmitsu Aratan's 1200th comment! Cau's 100th comeent, Alexander's (aka CC) 210th, 888th and 2200th comments! Moriarti's 800th comment , Piccolo's 2000th comment! lirael's 505th comment , Quom Farlance's 120th comment, Alexander's 1800th comment , Eica's 1400th comment , Wicek's 3200th comment lady C's 999th comment, Echuu's 1100th comment, Takaru's 325th and 400th comment, Redeye's 200th comment picc's 3600th comment, Ostith's 50th comment, Elmo's 555th comment] |
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(Jedi)Obi-JK - Student
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Quote: And things like that aren't illegal becasue.....? Haven't read it, but I believe it's in the EULA. You basically agree to allow Sony todo as it pleases with your digital music. Checkout how AWESOME Sony's mp3 players are: http://reviews.cnet.com/Sony_Network_Walkman_NW_HD5__Silver_/4864-6490_7-31417605.html?ctype=msgid&messageSiteID=7&messageID=1249437&cval=1249437&tag=uolst _______________ Silent Bob (Kevin Smith): You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you. -Steve (Obi) |
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Vasper Ba'xian - Student 
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And things like that aren't illegal becasue.....? _______________ Brother to: Tamal, Kavar, J.D.,Jermia, Devlin, Ulic, Xiabara, Seij,Tarron Mib,>>>ROCK ON .My Spacescapes art page.My Everything Else art page. MY FAV. Jedi Are: Qui-Gon Jinn, Corran Horn, and Anakin Solo. Unofficial Master to Tamal. and Kavar. Founder of the Wuji Hundun Jian saber style. Proud owner of Tamal's 200th comment!//Proud owner of Refl3x's 300th comment!>>>Proud owner of Tyrant's 800th comment>>>Proud owner of Lucky's 170th comment>>>Proud owner of BDKawika's 444th comment>>>To except Existance is to except Reality.
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JP - Academy Pimp 
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I just find it awesome that people are using the sony program against others...nice work sony you just gave hackers a better tool...way to go...douchebags _______________ Come on now, every Generation X boy wanted to be Luke Skywalker. Is it because he was a whiney farm boy from some backwater hack planet? No, it's because he was a FREAKING JEDI. He could block lasers with his lightsaber. He could levitate droids & rocks & crap with his mind. Come on, he choked two pig dudes with just a simple gesture. He cut off Darth Vader's hand and kicked him down a flight of stairs. He got his @$$ zapped by lightning from the geezer Emperor, stood up and said "s'at all you got b!tc#??" |
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Monteeeeeee - Nugget 
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i would suggest a little side note saying that your link contains adult language, alot of small children on this site apart from that a solid post i agree with _______________ If you add me to MSN, tell me who you are 
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(Jedi)Obi-JK - Student
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Ok, I was unaware people didn't know this. Sony, SUCKS!!! To make it worse they have really good engineering, they really make good quality products. Then either managers or marketing, or some idiot, along the chain totally messes this product up. Along with rootkits lets not forget just how stupid it is that they have "proprietary" flash memory sticks, which all of thier products use. So unlike all of the other (what honstly 10-15) name brand electronics corporationns who use general SD cards, Sony has to make things complicated. Up until a few weeks ago the only I would buy with the Sony name on it was music, now I won't even do that. Seriously just boycott this company, they do nothing to help the electronics world. *** LINK CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE *** Here is Sony, being Sony: http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/?t=archives&date=2005-11-04 _______________ Silent Bob (Kevin Smith): You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you. -Steve (Obi) This comment was edited by (Jedi)Obi-JK on Nov 07 2005 01:47am. |
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AvaloN - Student 
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Tnx for bringing that up. That's retarded. |
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Mreoton - Student |
Whoa...Didnt they think maybe thats a bad idea? I do respect Sony because they make a lot of good products but thats just taking advantage of us. |
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Masta - Jedi Council 
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Wow. Now THATS seriously messed up...sheesh. _______________ Find out more about the Jedi Academy Aurochs here and more about Masta here! Married to Kain. |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger 
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Beautiful. There goes Sony's reputation. The technical side of it, documented on SysInternals is particularly interesting. _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. |
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Jade Jedi - Retired 
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Well I wont be buying SONY if there gona do this to people.  _______________ *CLICKEH->Never risk the Fett Man|*Download my Saber here. Made by master craftsman Pink Floyd_Mintaka + his 2002 & 4000 comment's [Laz's 700th comment][BDKawika's 600th comment] & Owner of a TOWEL award!!|Master: Sared Padawans: Rage-Ball and Dante Eagle.|*Jade Jedi at The Jedi Academy Archives "There's only one Return and it's not of the King it's of the Jedi" Randal Clerks 2 The top 10 reasons why I procrastinate: 1. |
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