[NTLUG:Discuss] Security, Malware, DRM, Rootkits and Windows. Are Linux and Unix next?

[Robert Pearson]

FYI... from another mailing list. The Malware problem now has legal
DRM added to it.

Here is an interesting detective job locating a very sneaky rootkit
from people who should know better.

It is long but very interesting.

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<<http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html>>
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One Reply...

Read that one today.  Very sneaky.  I won't be buying sony products
anymore (especially music).

Of course, I don't already, because I got "burned" by the DRM on the
minidiscs while I was in Iraq.  I used my desktop at home to create a
bunch of minidiscs to listen to in Iraq, and when I got over there and
wanted to rearrange my songs, create different mixes and such, I found
out that only the computer that created the disc could change the songs
on it!  Needless to say I was mad.

Thanks,  Robert