Received this morning. I don't play CD's on my computer (I use mp3's)but it revealing anyway.
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Before you (or your children) load that new music CD into your computer to play BE VERY CAREFUL that it is not from SONY or BMG (BMG is owned by Sony).
Long story made short:
Sony recently started shipping CD's with Content/Copy Protection. If you load one of these CD's into your PC (the only thing which can play them), your PC will get a whole bunch of new software installed.
This software is "cloaked" so you can't see the files which are installed. There is no tool to uninstall the files. If you do try to uninstall the software it will probably break your computer (can you say "rebuild the Operating System"?), and if you leave the software on your PC it will slow it down and makes it vulnerable to virus attacks.
No problem if you've got a mac - not only will the software not install but the music won't play!
Here's a link to a short news story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/02/AR2005110202362.html
And for the geeks out there, here's the looooong story:
http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html
Please forward this to friends before their PC's get infected with Sony's malware!
- OT: Sony is in the Virus business Ron Wormus
