| 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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(Jedi)Obi-JK - Student 
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New updates in this matter!!!! Sony worse than ever! Summary: Even if you decline the EULA they installed the rootkit anyways, that is messed up. http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/12/22/160206.shtml?tid=233&tid=123&tid=17 _______________ 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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AvaloN - Student 
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Rofl VGG Sony  |
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JavaGuy - Student 
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Well that was a ton of money well spent by Sony. I wonder what it cost them to develop the copy protection so easily defeated by scotch tape. _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Bubu - Hubbub 
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Interesting. _______________ make install -not war |
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Alex Dkana - Staff 
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Quote: Down with the tyranny and evil that is Sony! lol i second this! _______________ To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield | Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken | Rhaiko D'kana - SWTOR EU Guild Co-Founder | Is it what the teacher, teaches? Or what the student learns? A Dkana |
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R2D2 - Staff 
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Down with the tyranny and evil that is Sony! _______________ "Do or do not, there is no try" Jedi Master Yoda Dual Saberist |
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JavaGuy - Student
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I hadn't considered the identity theft angle. Having one's identity stolen can ruin a person's life--I mean ruin it, for years and years, or even permanently. If it happened to me because of Sony's spyware, I'd certainly sue them big-time. _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Bubu - Hubbub
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... and it goes on. _______________ make install -not war |
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(Jedi)Obi-JK - Student
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Quote: I wonder... On those particular CDs they are recalling, that they used invasive techniques to prevent pirating of: -How much money would they have lost due to piracy? -How much of that loss would actually have been prevented by their software? -And how much did it cost them to develop--and then recall!--the anti-piracy mechanism? (I can't imagine that recalls are cheap.) Don't forget the lawyer fee's and class action against them. _______________ 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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JavaGuy - Student 
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I wonder... On those particular CDs they are recalling, that they used invasive techniques to prevent pirating of: -How much money would they have lost due to piracy? -How much of that loss would actually have been prevented by their software? -And how much did it cost them to develop--and then recall!--the anti-piracy mechanism? (I can't imagine that recalls are cheap.) _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Bubu - Hubbub 
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They're doing it _______________ make install -not war |
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Bubu - Hubbub
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It's all about the money. _______________ make install -not war |
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(Jedi)Obi-JK - Student
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I'm not sure Sony cares. They obviously new they were doing this. They have released no public apology/withdraw. I am fairly certain, they feel they are doing what is best for them, and that is the end of the story. P.S. The entire paragraph above it speculation, I have no sources for any of that. That is just how I see the situation. P.S.S. Has Sony had a press conference or anything about this? Quote: NPR mentioned on the news today about lawsuits popping up in the US against Sony. i wonder if the guy at Sony who came up with this idea is gonna have a job after this is all over. _______________ 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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3th - Retired 
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NPR mentioned on the news today about lawsuits popping up in the US against Sony. i wonder if the guy at Sony who came up with this idea is gonna have a job after this is all over. _______________ this is the internet, be serious damn it! |
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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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