Can you say - class action?
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| Author: | iJasonT [ Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:54 am ] |
| Post subject: | Sony BMG + Rootkits |
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/19/busin ... dc&ei=5070 Pretty interesting. The skinny is that SonyBMG installed an anti-pricary rootkit on peoples computers if they placed a CD into their Computer disk drive. Of course this was quickly found and blogged about. Sony then made a ''removal' tool but that even had security issues. So what does Sony do? Quote: Thomas Hesse, president of Sony BMG's Global Digital Business, went on National Public Radio to say that "most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
Wow, so umm becuase Ive never heard of the melissa virus then I should not worry about installing my anti-virus software then? What jerks. In the end they did a recall of all CDs and released 'clean' versions without the spyware. |
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| Author: | Angus MacGregor [ Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:58 am ] |
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Yeah... ya just gotta love Sony. |
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| Author: | Deak Almar [ Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:01 pm ] |
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Can you say - class action?
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| Author: | Obo [ Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:09 pm ] |
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pfft. Old news 
Sony BMG settles class action suit |
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| Author: | Cetera [ Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:43 pm ] |
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What happened to our other thread that was all about this? I posted a lot in there. |
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| Author: | Cetera [ Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:46 pm ] |
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Here it is, I found it. We could merge them. http://www.avian-gamers.net/forums/view ... hp?t=15635 |
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