12.11.05

Consumer : 1, Sony BMG : 0

"Sony is to suspend production of CDs using its controversial content protection technology, currently being exploited by a Trojan virus.

The technology employed by Sony to protect its music from illegitimate use was picked up by security software as a rootkit which hid files from Windows and made them impossible to detect. But simply using letters '$sys$' in a filename means that any such file will be hidden, even malicious files. And this is exactly what has happened with the latest virus."


Well, this is a nice change of events. Hopefully Sony BMG will let go of First4Internet and try a different approach.

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